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or slathered on something. Some of

my favorite memories are the smell

of my family’s kitchen when my

dad was making this dish with our

family-raised pork.” —Crystal Jo

Bruns, Taste of Home field editor

Who Knew? The fool’s gold loaf—

featuring peanut butter, blueberry

jam, and a pound of ba-

con in a sourdough loaf—

isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

But when Elvis tried one

in Denver, he loved it so

much that he returned in

his private jet to get more

for daughter Lisa Marie’s

eighth birthday.

Connecticut

Signature dish: clam pie. In the 1920s,

an Italian immigrant named Frank

Who Knew?

food trucks

are an urban

staple today,

but when Kogi

BBQ hit the streets of LA in 2008,

finding customers was an adventure.

Kogi did it by posting its daily menu

and whereabouts on Twitter. The

smell of spicy, kimchi-covered Kogi

Dogs helped too. “At every stop, it’ll

be hundreds of young people and 12

middle-aged copycats in suits and

ties asking where I buy my cabbage,”

chef Roy Choi told Newsweek.

Colorado

Signature dish: Green chile pork.

“Colorado is one of the few states

where you can find green chile. It’s

on almost every menu, served alone

Connecticut’s

clam pizza pie

has been a

Nutmeg State

signature since

the 1920s.

How we picked: More than 70 editors and field editors from our sister

publication Taste of Home submitted their state’s favorite noshes, as did

TOH and Reader’s Digest readers from around the United States.

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