* Country Club Bakery in Fairmont is " The Home of the Original Pepperoni Roll.

Pepperoni is characteristically soft, slightly smoky, and bright red in color.

It is a descendant of the spicy salamis of southern Italy, such also as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples or the soppressata from Calabria, the main differences are that Pepperoni has a finer grain, is usually softer, less " aged ", and produced with use of a " synthetic gut " almost exclusively produced in an " industrial " way, so not as artisanal as the previously mentioned Italian salamis and sausages.

The BiFi version, BiFi Roll Pepperoni, is still available.

A pizzeria in Chesapeake, Ohio, which is across the Ohio River from Huntington, West Virginia, introduced a deep-fried pepperoni roll called the Pepperoni Zinger.

Many characters, segments, and content from Tom Goes to the Mayor have resurfaced in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !, including the Channel 5 Married News Team, Gibbons, and even a live action version of Tom Goes to the Mayor used as an opening for the episode " Pepperoni ".

Pepperoni and other Italian foods became popular in north-central West Virginia in the early 20th century, when the booming mines and railroads attracted many immigrants from Italy.

* Restaurant Road Trip: Pepperoni Roll Competition from WBOY-TV

Pepperoni and Italian crumbles are popular pizza toppings.

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Pepperoni rolls are typically eaten as a snack or as the main dish of a lunch either unheated or slightly warmed.

Pepperoni rolls do not need to be refrigerated for storage and could readily be packed for lunch by miners.

the Inside of a Pepperoni Roll.

Pepperoni rolls faced a legal challenge in 1987 when the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) proposed re-classifying bakeries that manufactured the rolls as meat packing plants, thus subjecting them to stricter regulations.

* Kung Pao chicken – The authentic Sichuan dish is quite spicy, and the Westernized versions tend to be less so if at all.

The flavour is typically less malty than a traditional bock, and may be drier, hoppier, and more bitter, but still with a relatively low hop flavour, with a mild spicy or peppery quality from the hops, increased carbonation and alcohol content.

Hunan cuisine is well known for its hot spicy flavor, fresh aroma and deep color.

Traditional Chinese cuisine is also based on opposites, whereby hot balances cold, pickled balances fresh and spicy balances mild.

In Tunisia, it is made mostly spicy with harissa sauce, it is served with almost everything, including lamb, beef, camel, and poultry.

Fish couscous is Tunisian specialty, it can be also made with octopus in hot red spicy sauce.

There are several distinctly Chicago sandwiches, among them the Italian beef sandwich, which is thinly sliced beef slowly simmered au jus and served on an Italian roll with sweet peppers or spicy giardiniera.

Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes, usually in the form of wat ( or wot ), a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 50 centimeters ( 20 inches ) in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour.

Following this, berbere is added to make a spicy keiy ( Amharic: ቀይ ḳey, Tigrinya, Ge ' ez: ቀይሕ ḳeyyiḥ ; " red ") wat, or may be omitted for a milder alicha wat or alecha wat ( Amharic: አሊጫ ālič ̣ ā ).

In the event that the berbere is particularly spicy, the cook may elect to add it before the kibbeh or oil so the berbere will cook longer and become milder.

Another distinctive Ethiopian dish is kitfo ( frequently spelled ketfo ), which consists of raw ( or rare ) beef mince marinated in mitmita ( Ge ' ez: ሚጥሚጣ mīṭmīṭā, a very spicy chili powder ) and niter kibbeh.

Another popular breakfast food is dulet ( Ge ' ez: ዱለት dūlet ), a spicy mixture of tripe, liver, beef, and peppers with injera.

Another common form, in which the potatoes are cut into irregular shapes and seasoned with a spicy tomato sauce, is called " patatas bravas ".

Düsseldorf and the surrounding area are known for its particularly spicy mustard, which is used both as a table condiment and in local dishes such as Senfrostbraten ( roasted steak with mustard ).

It is one of the Eight Great Traditions of Chinese cuisine and is well known for its hot spicy flavour, fresh aroma and deep colour.

The most popular of these soups is gaejang-guk ( also called bosintang ), a spicy stew which is believed by consumers to balance the body's heat during the summer months ; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.

There is a spicy version which the Pandits call dum monj, while as the nonspicy version is called monj-haakh.

Besides limonene and alpha-pinene ( 0. 34 %), both monoterpenes, the oil is unusually rich ( 0. 38 % total ) in sesquiterpenes such as α-bergamotene ( 0. 021 %), caryophyllene ( 0. 18 %), α-humulene ( 0. 07 %) and α-muurolene ( 0. 06 %), and these contribute to the spicy and woody flavor of the fruit.

Southeastern Mexico is known for its spicy vegetable and chicken-based dishes.

The flavor is pungent and spicy.

* 1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York

Charlie ( Harvey Keitel ) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless friend, Johnny Boy ( Robert De Niro ), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks.

Oregano's most prominent modern use is as the staple herb of Italian-American cuisine.

The popularity of this Italian-American cuisine has grown from its origins in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to most parts of the United States, Canada, and with the advent of chain restaurants, is now available in many parts of the world.

Marinara sauce is an Italian-American term for a simple tomato sauce with herbs — mostly parsley and basil — but, contrary to what the name might suggest (' marinara ' is Italian for " sailor-style ") without anchovies, fish, or seafood.

The cannoli sold in Italian-American bakeries today usually still contain ricotta, but mascarpone is a less common alternative.

In this film he is portrayed by Italian-American actor Chazz Palminteri.

Although first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights on March 20, 1954, the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

In this game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York.

* Roland Merullo: In Revere, In Those Days ( an 11 year-old boy, orphaned by tragedy, is adopted by a large, extended Italian-American family )

Vinny Paz, formerly Vinny Pazienza ( born Vincenzo Edward Pazienza on December 16, 1962 in Cranston, Rhode Island ) is an Italian-American former boxer and world champion in the lightweight and light middleweight weight classes.

Five percent of the population is Italian-American.

Frank Santora is an ex-Catholic Italian-American pastor of Faith Church, an evangelical megachurch in New Milford, Connecticut.

The Mercer County Italian-American Festival is held annually in West Windsor on the grounds of Mercer County Park.

The village is an older, predominantly Italian-American, working-class community built along the banks of the Mahoning River, and centered around the once productive Sharon Steel works.

Niles is known for its ethnic diversity, and the community hosts a large Italian-American community.

The local center of Italian-American culture and tradition is Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church.

The church's annual celebration of the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel during July is considered one of Ohio's noteworthy Italian-American festivals.

The town has two different Italian American organizations and is listed as one of the Italian-American strongholds in the U. S.

Of Italian-American descent, Criss is the oldest of the five children of Joseph and Loretta Criscuola ; he grew up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York.

Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian and first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress.