Zeppole

Though zeppole is the generic Italian name for fritters of all kinds, it specifically refers to those chewy fritters of fried unseasoned bread dough covered with sugar and eaten outdoors during Italian street festivals.

When I was a child on Fourteenth Avenue in Newark there was a “feast” every weekend from July Fourth to Labor Day in our all-Italian neighborhood. Each feast involved processions of members of a saint’s society bearing his or her statue through the streets. Af