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Inhaling the Magic Smells of the Market in Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore is a city of markets, because it’s a city of neighborhoods. Broadway Market is a high-ceilinged, old building set like an island in a stream of cars and trucks and zippy pedestrians. Inside, the world falls quiet and the smells take over. All Polish food: hot smoked mackerel, red borsch soup, plum butter, grated red beets, maybe fifty kinds of sausage—krakowska, typolska, domowa, lots of kielbasas. There’s a deli selling coddie cakes and crabcakes, homemade egg salad. At the breakfast counter, friendly old guys in shorts with knee-high socks are eating chocolate chip pancakes on foam plates. Grab an egg sandwich, head outside, park yourself on a bench and drink in the view of misty cranes and rooftops far across the shining harbor.
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