Discovering (New) Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine

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11-02-2011 @ 12:16PM

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First of all, it isn't just the Amish who are Penna Dutch (a
corruption of Deutsch); most of the people in a large chunk of Penna
are the Fancy Folk, as opposed to the Amish (and Mennonites) who are
the Plain Folk, in other words, German-origin people whose families
were here before the Revolution. They even have their own German
dialect which is only a little resembles today's Low Deutsch. The Whoopie Pie
was invented where? I'm over 70 years old, spent my entire youth in
Berks County (in the heart of the PD land) and am rather well
travelled ... and I never heard of Whoopie Pie until a couple of
months ago when we visited Portland, *Maine* for the first time. As a whole, PD cooking is very down-home and very plain. It could stand a little fancying up.
One item they have that's better than anywhere else in the world is
crab cakes. There's a diner in Leesport Penna, right on the highway
thru town ... And yes, diners in Berks County are not pseudo but the
real thing.

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