With a collection of 500-plus cookbooks from Maryland and a personal database filled with more than 76,500 regional recipes, Kara Mae Harris is a self-made authority on Baltimore’ s culinary history. It all started 15 years ago when Harris, whose full-time job is in IT, started researching the state’ s foodways and cooking traditions via the Enoch Pratt Free Library’ s Maryland Department. Fascinated by the local dishes she discovered in community cookbooks, her next step was to attempt to interpret the historic