Baltimore Foodways in the Late Nineteenth Century

Terrapin chowder, related recipe below I’m going to do a series of stories on what I learned while doing field work in Baltimore, Mar...

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1950s Infrapolitics & Segregated Restaurants

Activist James Farmer eating at a southern lunch counter 1965. Jim Crow segregation laws required that blacks sit apart from white customers...

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What Happened to that Old Soul Food Restaurant?

A fish restaurant for black folk, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937 Yesterday I hooked up with my cousin Charlie White who is a Baltimore native. ...

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The Black Zagat Guide and Eating Jim Crow

A rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate accommodations for co...

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Our July Raspberry Tradition

Coconut ice cream with raspberry, recipe below I started the tradition of picking wild berries in July with my two children about three ...

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