Lexington Market, A Foodie's Living Museum

Lexington Market in inner city Baltimore has just about everything a food lover would want including these pig ears at a Butchers stall. See the short documentary below on a eatery that has made a living off of selling great pig ear sandwiches

One of the iconic food spots in Baltimore that I visited while doing field work was Lexington Market located walking distance from several old African American neighborhoods. The largest running market in the world, the founders of Lexington Market started the place in 1782 with land that Revolutionary war hero John Eager Howard donated—thus the name Lexington Market. Its founders envisioned a space for farmers to sell produce, diary, meat, and poultry from in places like Towson and other parts of Baltimore County. My cousin Charlie, a native of Baltimore, took me there after I told him I wanted a taste of Baltimore off of the tourist beat. I’ve been the Baltimore many times but never to the Lexington Market. In my travel experience, I have the best time when I hang with locals who know where the best places are for food and shopping at normal folks prices instead of the sanitized and tourist staged settings where you’re safe and pay high prices that locals would not stomach. Here’s a link to a a great foodways documentary on the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi whose owners' of Afro-Mexican heritage became famous selling pig ear sandwiches: http://www.southernfoodways.com/documentary/film/smoke_ears.html