Yes, it's true. The beehives were out in full force today.
They were everywhere and there was no escape!
If you really wanted to get your Hon on, you could go get YOUR hair done UP, too, by a handsome fellow in a mohawk.
Oh, and here is the world's biggest crab cake, which, thankfully, did not go to waste.
And, if you needed something kind of sweet and tart, you could suck on a lemon-stick. What's a lemon-stick, you ask? Well, it's a lemon cut in half with a peppermint stick stuck in it. What you do is suck the lemon juice up through the peppermint stick for a lovely mix of flavors. Read more here from an article Rachel from Coconut and Lime did a while back on Baltimore's lemon sticks on Culinate.
I walked right on by the lemon sticks and went straight for the.....pit beef! The smell of the grills put a spell on me from the second I stepped onto "the avenue" (a.k.a. 36th Street in Hampden). I got me some nice pit beef, dumped a heap of horseradish and onions on it, and listened to the live music for a while. Pit beef is Baltimore's version of BBQ and, if done right, it is grilled nice and crisp on the outside and kind of rare on the inside. You serve it up on a kaiser roll with horseradish and onion.
If you're interested in pit beef, check out these links:
*Yes, even those guys (i.e. Guy and Duff) from TV like their pit beef. Click here for a short video on YouTube.
*If you are in town, Chaps is a Baltimore pit beef favorite (also highlighted in video).
*I'd also like to mention that there is a school of folks who don't consider pit beef real barbeque because it's just grilled. I'm not taking any sides here yet, just giving you all some information. Here is a great post dated June 2008 from the Food Nerd in Baltimore. The post also includes detailed information on making pit beef at home and, well, he happens to be a food writer for the Baltimore City Paper and a trained chef.
