After a tiring afternoon of helping to stimulate the economy, we ordered a pepperoni pizza from Wegmans, my new favorite pizza place.I learned that pepperoni comes from the word peperoni, which is the plural form of peperone, which is the Italian word for capsicum. Capsicum in the U.S. is known as, you guessed it, the pepper. It includes all the common pepper varieties, such as the red and green bell pepper and the chili pepper as well as the pimento, the subject of Post No. 25.
Pepperoni is an offspring of the spicy salamis from southern Italy. I also learned that Soppressata, one of my favorite salamis originated in Calabria, the region in Italy were my great-grandfather Domenico was born.
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