West Virginia
4 dishes from West Virginia, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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4 dishes from West Virginia, cooked the way the place cooks them.
Sliced apples cooked down in sweet cider until the two stop separating, sweetened late and spiced off the heat, dark enough to stand up on a saucer.
Soft white bread baked around sticks of cured pepperoni, so the fat renders out in the oven and soaks into the crumb instead of running off the plate.
Potatoes fried hard in bacon fat in one skillet, with ramp bulbs going in near the end and the leaves barely a minute before it leaves the stove.
A steamed bun, mustard, a fine-ground beef sauce simmered soft rather than browned, raw onion and a cold sweet slaw laid over the top of all of it.