Pittsburgh's Chipped Chopped Ham Sandwiches
"The star here is the thinly-shaved ham, which is not remarkable but salty and juicy and tender, swimming in a mix of this mild tomatoey sauce and its own rendered juices." Pittsburgh's Chipped Chopped Ham Sandwiches
Isaly’s is–or was, I suppose. No, let’s say it still is–a chain of delis around the Pittsburgh area. But there used to be much more to the story. A book published in 2021 by the Heinz History Center traces Isaly’s origins, from an immigrant dairy farm in Eastern Ohio in the 1830s to a chain of ice cream shops expanding into the Pittsburgh market in the 1930s and becoming a staple of Pittsburgh…
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