ISSUE 72, UNEXPECTED ORIGINS, Part 4: Pimento Cheese
Pimento Cheese
Sometimes beginnings disconnect with ends. Consider the case of pimento cheese. Now much pimento cheese doesn’t use pimento peppers—what one would consider the sine qua non of pimento cheese—opting for big red bell peppers which are less sweet and less aromatic than the pimento. For most of the 20th century pimento cheese used an authent…