Since I was young, I've had a deep affinity for pepperoni rolls and bread. In recent years, I've given up pork, but that adoration for the pepperoni breads of my youth hasn't waned. I was especially partial to a local Italian stalwart called Vitamia which made the absolute best pepperoni bread imaginable (along with practically everything else on display in their storefront), as well as my cousin's pepperoni bread that she made every Christmas Eve, which I would eat with vigor.
Something I did not know, though, was that some trace the origins of pepperoni rolls to the Italian immigrants who lived in the Appalachain region, usually within North Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia.
