New Jersey
4 dishes from New Jersey, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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4 dishes from New Jersey, cooked the way the place cooks them.
Twice-fried potatoes under melted low-moisture mozzarella and a dark brown gravy, finished under the broiler in a metal dish — the North Jersey diner order that exists for two in the morning.
Deep-fried hot dogs and deep-fried potato rounds packed into a quarter of a round pizza bread with fried peppers and onions, built as a pocket rather than a sandwich.
Thick slices of cured, smoked pork roll notched at the edge so they fry flat, a fried egg, American cheese melted on the meat in the pan, all of it on a kaiser roll.
Cheese on the dough first, then uncooked crushed tomatoes dropped over it in ladlefuls — a thin pie built in the opposite order to a pizza, and baked hot enough to finish in twelve minutes.