Baltimore's Lexington Market Part 2
Roasted Konstant Peanut Stand in front of the Lexington Market in Baltimore, Maryland Photos Courtesy of Fred Opie
Peanuts are indigenous to Brazil. During the Atlantic slave trade the Portuguese introduced them to West and Central Africa where they used them as part of the rations they gave to enslaved Africans. Seeing an economic opportunity African farmers began planting them in their fields and selling them to those seeking food for the Atlantic slave trade. In Africa and the Americas peanuts became something of a candy that people regularly snacked on, that became the case in the south where people boiled them with salt and roasted them.
