Patti Miller points through the picture window to a notch in the mountains where the Potomac River meets the Cacapon. She tells me about her friend Neva Wood, a native West Virginian who died a few years ago near the age of 100. Throughout the last century, Wood and her fellow locals here in the …
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West Virginia
‘Green Grandma’ to the rescue
Patti Miller and Leslie Hotaling are creating new Appalachian cuisine with the help of some old friends. The co-owners of Panorama at the Peak restaurant in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., marry ancient ingredients with fresh ideas. Hot bacon dressing inspired by the Pennsylvania Dutch wilts local watercress, an indigenous ingredient once harvested by Native Americans. A Reuben …
Pepperoni rolls: W. Va. with an Italian accent
Tony Guinta grew up in Toms River, N.J., where stromboli are king. So he shouldn’t have blinked when he met the pepperoni roll, the unofficial state food of West Virginia. Like stromboli, a pinwheel of meat and cheese baked inside pizza dough, the pepperoni roll folds spicy pepperoni inside a bun. Unlike stromboli, it insists …
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West Virginia produces more than coal
West Virginia may be known for its mines, but the state has brought us more than coal. Early frontier families ...
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