Shane Speal admits that the first time he ate scrapple, he gagged. “I’m not from around here so I had never heard of it before,” he remembers. Since then, he has become something of an expert on philosophy behind the Pennsylvania delicacy, even if he still doesn’t eat it. “It’s about making something with what
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Driving through the town of Steelton, Pennsylvania and you’ll see banners hanging from utility poles that proudly read “many nations, one people.” It’s a truism that could apply to just about any American city, but here it is especially accurate. For over a hundred years, waves of immigrants came to work in the steel mills
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