In this place known as the “Blueberry Capital of the World,” which has also been called the most Italian place in New Jersey, they really like their provolone, especially around Christmastime.
Between early December and Super Bowl Sunday, 2,800 pounds of the piquant cheese, in the shape of 10-foot-long torpedoes, will be completely sold out at Bagliani’s Market, an Italian American grocery store that has elevated cheese-cutting to a celebrated annual holiday tradition.
Census figures show nearly 45 percent of Hammonton’s 14,700 residents are of Italian descent – only Toms River has more Italian Americans, about 30,000, but in a lesser concentration: 33 percent of the population of 89,000 people in that Ocean County township.
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