Lauren Cohen is the digital senior editor at Baltimore, where she covers food, events, lifestyle, and community news. A Baltimore native and recent Towson University grad, she loves taking advantage of all that Charm City has to offer. She’s also a huge fan of spicy cocktails and ‘90s cover bands.
Earl Martin—the museum's new Deborah and Philip English Curator of Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture—studies how the 18th- and 19th-century artifacts had an impact on the world around them.
Thanks to jerk chicken master Jeff Brown—plus some other spiced and fried chicken purveyors—the entire market is often perfumed a bit like the best imaginable state fair.
"When I came to Baltimore, the first thing I did was look for tacos," writes research editor Amy Scattergood, who moved here from Los Angeles. Luckily, she didn’t have to reload the U-Haul, as our town is filled with excellent taquerias.