potato salad – OLD LINE PLATE

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Mrs. Kitching’s Ham Potato Salad Loaf
ByKara August 31, 2019April 5, 2026

Many home cooks dream of achieving what Emily Frances Kitching did. Kitching’s Smith Island boardinghouse was no restaurant. Guests ate at a set time. Meals were served at communal dinner tables. There wasn’t a menu to choose from – there was a smorgasbord of seafood soups or chowders; crab cakes; clam fritters; ham; hot rolls;…

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Potato Salad, Thomasina Falcon, “The Soul Food Cook Book,” Western High School
ByKara June 7, 2018March 6, 2026

“Western High May Become Coeducational Negro School,” the 1954 Baltimore Sun Headline read. Hand-wringing about school desegregation was splashed throughout the pages of the Sun that year. The issue that brought Western High to the front line of the fight was its status as an all-girls school. If the quality of education was unique in…

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