Hot Sandwiches
November is national pepper month. In the early 1980s some of us student athletes at Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) remembered hot Italian egg and pepper sandwiches. The tradition developed as Italian Roman Catholics developed creative ways to eat well during the Lenten season six weeks before Easter. This small Herk eatery made the sandwich to order cooking the ingredients in front of you: seasoned eggs and green peppers. The cook behind the counter filled a piece of Italian bread as long as my forearm with the eggs and peppers, It was a simple sandwich but oh so good! The cook wrapped the sandwich in foil with the top portion open and then put it in the oven used to make pizzas. After five minutes in the oven they pulled it from the oven with the top of the bread golden brown and the eggs and pepper steaming hot.
