pepperoni

It’s why Tino indulged every customer, both nasty and agreeable, while working his college summers as a bus boy and waiter at Bella Notte, the family restaurant in Pittsburgh known for its shredded pepperoni pizzas.

“They brought food traditions with them. You get these unique regional dishes, like pepperoni rolls. And baked spaghetti starts to look like part of that same pattern.”

Patrons eating pepperoni slices at the local pizza parlour will propose: "If anything, criminals need to be concerned, because if they break into your home, and you're there, they don't know what you got."

Since I was young, I've had a deep affinity for pepperoni rolls and bread.

Created by homesick Italian American immigrants more than a century ago, pepperoni is now synonymous with pizza.