The Long Weekend: Tomato Festival in Pittston, Pa. (Washington Post)

From The Washington Post:

By Brian Yarvin
July 27, 2009

For lovers of Italian American food, especially those who remember what that cuisine was like a couple of generations ago, Pittston and the surrounding Wyoming Valley are a sort of Brigadoon, bending over backward to preserve culinary traditions that have otherwise been discarded. In the valley, red sauce is a passion, not an anachronism. Simple pasta, vegetable and tomato-sauce dishes, poverty-driven foods such as braised tripe and stewed chopped pig heart, and basic pleasures such as spaghetti with meatballs still thrive.

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