Alto Appalachia
A sheaf of pencil-thin twigs of pepperoni is folded inside a tube of yeast dough. After the dough has risen, the whole thing is baked: that’s a pepperoni roll,...
Early in the 20th century, settlers from Italy came to the north central part of West Virginia around Clarksburg to work coal mines, railroads, and farms. Their legacy is a bounty of Italian-accented good eating as well as one dish unique to the state: the pepperoni roll. The place that first sold pepperoni rolls (and still does) is the Country Club Bakery up in Fairmont. In Clarksdale, Tomaro’s Bakery uses pizza dough to enclose the pepperoni sticks. Tomaro’s repertoire of Italian bread loaves is as good as it gets. Customers have a choice of regular crust, hard crust, or hard crust baked, that last one as brittle as a bread stick (but tender inside). For a fine sit-down dinner, Julio’s Cafe offers a full Italian menu from pasta e fagiole to tuna pomodoro and veal parmagiana. Julio’s menu advises: “Everything is made from scratch. Please be patient.”
A sheaf of pencil-thin twigs of pepperoni is folded inside a tube of yeast dough. After the dough has risen, the whole thing is baked: that’s a pepperoni roll,...
In the states where they are popular, Dixie dogs are not known as Dixie dogs. They are called slaw dogs or simply hot dogs. But because they originated in...
Early in the 20th century, settlers from Italy came to the north central part of West Virginia to work coal mines, railroads, and farms. Their legacy is a bounty...
There's no point getting into a flame war over which American hot dog is best. It's impossible, because the nation's hot dogs are so diverse. However, we will go...