Most people, and rightly so, would have thought pepperoni was born in Italy. Although it is hard to say exactly when it was created, it probably popped up in the early 1900s when Italian butcher shops and pizzerias began to flourish on the streets of a burgeoning Italian-American society.

Notes food writer and historian John Mariani, who wrote a book titled How Italian Food Conquered the World, "Pepperoni is purely an Italian-American creation, like Chicken Parmesan." While we may not know its exact origins, we know it when we see it: This air-dried somewhat spicy sausage has a few very distinctive characteristics: fine-grained, lightly smoky, bright red and relatively soft.

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