Why Pork Roll (Or Taylor Ham) Rules New Jersey || Food/Groups
New Jersey is hard to love. It’s a land of endless debate: diner vs. diner, Giants vs. Eagles, Springsteen vs. Bon Jovi, North vs. South vs. Central... on and on. But there IS one thing that binds the Garden State together: pork roll.
Pork roll is the unofficial -- but indisputable -- state meat of New Jersey. Even though everyone in North Jersey calls it Taylor ham, pretty much the entire state agrees that this processed minced meat defines its culinary identity.
So for this very special Garden State episode of Food/Groups, we drove down the Parkway, up the Turnpike, and a bunch of roads in between to find out why pork roll is so damn important to New Jerseyans.
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Pete Genovese: twitter.com/petegenovese
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Scott Miller:
John Yarusi:
Locations
Summit Diner:
The Pork Roll Festival®:
Trenton Pork Roll Festival at Trenton Social:
Johnny’s Pork-Roll and Coffee Truck:
Music Credits:
“Act Like You Know” by Angel Amador, James Desmond, Jo'lise Grant, Mikhail Johnson, Panauh Kalayeh
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“By the Streams” by Tom Hillock, Nicolas Boscovic, Jane Pujols
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“Hot Sun Tan” by Robert Garner
2:32
“Luna” by Russell Chimes
4:07
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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown West Virginia - The Top Rated Episode
The hills of West Virginia are breathtakingly beautiful. The people I met there were unfailingly kind, and forgiving of my liberal tendencies. Though the culture, landscape, attitudes, voting tendencies, and religious beliefs were about as far from my own as they are from Saudi Arabia’s, I felt at home. I was enchanted—both by the people I met and by McDowell County’s mist-covered small towns.
Like any other episode of Parts Unknown, whether in Vietnam or Nigeria, or any city in the United States, this West Virginia episode is a plea for understanding of the people whose personal histories, sense of pride, independence, and daunting challenges deserve respect. It’s a walk in somebody else’s shoes.
The stereotypes about West Virginia, it turns out, are just as cruel, ignorant, misguided, patronizing, and evil as any other. Every meal might have begun with saying grace, but there was nothing hypocritical about it. People do care about each other. Friends, family, and the community are held close. The men and women who come from families of four, five generations of coal mining are not naive about the promises of cynical politicians—or the inevitable future of fossil fuel. Their identities, their aspirations, and their situation are far more complex than one can imagine, and their needs are more immediate.
There’s a reason why so many West Virginians love their birthplace so fiercely and have fought so long and so hard to preserve it. I hope this show gives you all a glimpse.
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10 Chain Restaurants That Vanished Across America (Part 2)
Top 10 chain restaurants that vanished across America (Part 2). We explore other restaurant chains have continued filing for bankruptcies and closing up shop around the country.
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Making Beer From Scrapple: Craftwerk Dogfish Head
Sam Calagione is one the forefathers of the craft beer revolution. His brewery Dogfish Head, founded in 1995, now produces over 175,000 barrels of beer annually, growing nearly 400 percent between 2003 and 2006. We traveled down to their massive headquarters in Rehobeth Beach, Delaware, to have Sam show us their very impressive operation. We also visited their brewpub to whip up a scrapple-based beer Sam has been thinking up for quite some time. Enjoy this inside look into one of the world's biggest craft breweries. For more about beer, check out our friends at BeerAdvocate.
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