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  • Golden-brown battered eggplant strips served on decorative blue and white plate, crispy fried vegetable appetizer
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    Eggplant Fried in Batter, Alice Brown

    ByKara December 1, 2017February 24, 2026

    “In a very real sense, ‘Maryland’s Way’ is Alice Brown’s Way.” – Tom Coakley, The Capital, Annapolis, 1975 Last month, I finished reading Michael Twitty’s book “The Cooking Gene,” and I was planning to write a whole post about it. I found myself basically at a loss to convey any meaningful context other than simply…

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  • Stuffed eggplant half with meat topping served with cooked greens on blue plate
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    Stuffed Eggplant, Gerald W. Johnson

    ByKara August 31, 2017January 12, 2019

    “To say that [Baltimore] is an ugly city is to give an altogether false impression, for ugliness ordinarily is construed as a negative quality, the absence of beauty. The astounding, the incredible, the downright fabulous ugliness of Baltimore, on the other hand, is distinctively a positive quality. The amazed newcomer to the city is almost…

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