Baltimore’s Arundel Ice Cream Company Part 2

Chocolate double dipped ice cream cone, recipe below In 1954 Arundel Ice Cream Company announced the opening of “Modern Kitchens” fe...

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Baltimore’s Arundel Ice Cream Company

hand dipped cone, recipes below I focused today's story around an image of West Biddle Street in Baltimore City, another African America...

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Great Cheap Eats in 1939: Baltimore’s Poor Boy Lunch Room

Lemon chess pie, recipe below Today's post is inspired by a circa 1939 image of Mullikin Street in black Baltimore the home...

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The Rank and File Lunch Room in 1939 Baltimore

Crab chowder, recipes below Today I want to talk about a circa 1939 Black Baltimore City image of the 200 block of South Caroline Street whi...

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Food and “The Economics of Storekeeping” in 1940

Corner store Baltimore, Maryland 1940, click to enlarge images. Doing a series on foodways in African American neighborhoods in the city of ...

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Father Divine and Cheap Eats During the Great Depression

Cook at Father Divine Mission, Harlem The impetus for posts this week are historic images from black Baltimore. One image in a Baltimore...

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Canned Foods and Baltimore’s First Grocery Store Chain

A&P Grocery Store, Garland, Texas, opened in 1926, click to enlarge the image, there is lots to see here! While doing research on Baltim...

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Soda, Ice Cream, and Courting Rituals During Prohibition

Ice cream soda, recipes galore below I found a 1928 image of the African American owned and operated Fennell's Greater Pharmacy at Druid...

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