Ohio

• Buckeyes

  Peanut butter and powdered sugar rolled into balls, frozen hard, and dipped in chocolate all the way but for a circle at the top — a portrait in candy of a nut nobody can eat.

  Total

  50 min, plus 1 hr chilling

  Serves

  48

  Calories

  143 per piece

• Cincinnati Chili

  A fine-grained meat sauce simmered three hours with cinnamon, clove and unsweetened chocolate, chilled overnight and skimmed, then ladled over spaghetti under a mound of shredded cheddar.

  Total

  3 hr 20 min, plus overnight chilling

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  735 per serving

• Cleveland Polish Boy

  A smoked kielbasa in a soft bun under a load of hot fries, a thin sweet-hot barbecue sauce poured over them, and cold slaw on top — assembled in that order and eaten standing up.

  Total

  1 hr

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  960 per serving

• Goetta

  Cincinnati's pork and pinhead-oat loaf: shoulder simmered to threads, oats cooked three hours in the same broth, set overnight in a pan and fried in slices until both faces are black-brown and brittle.

  Total

  4 hr 50 min, plus overnight chilling

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  425 per serving

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