Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

United States

Cincinnati sits on the Ohio River across from Covington and Newport in Kentucky. German immigrants arrived from the 1830s, many from the farm country of northwest Germany, and the meatpacking trade earned the city the nickname Porkopolis. Their grain sausage became goetta, which both banks of the river now claim, with a summer Goettafest in Newport and Covington.

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Sausages from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

Goetta

Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

Goetta is the breakfast meat of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky: ground pork and beef simmered for hours with pinhead oats, onion and bay leaf, set in loaf pans, then sliced and fried. A good slice comes out of the pan with a dark, crisp, pebbly crust and a soft grey-brown inside. Locals eat it with a runny egg, argue about ketchup against syrup, and put it in sandwiches, omelettes and on pizza.

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