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  • Plated crab cake with roasted asparagus and sour cream sauce, served with beer
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    Crab Cakes & Career Girl’s Delight, a tribute to Virginia Roeder

    ByKara December 24, 2025April 20, 2026

    I once referred to Virginia Roeder as “Baltimore’s own Martha Stewart.” The statement is a little out of character for me, but I wanted to convey my impression of Roeder’s business savvy, the way her “immaculate home” was described in the Sun, her reputation for culinary acumen, and the sense that Roeder was one of…

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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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