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 "type": "dish",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
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 "id": "chicken-riggies",
 "names": {
  "name": "chicken riggies",
  "aliases": [
   "Utica riggies",
   "riggies"
  ],
  "said": "Riggies is rigatoni. Ask for hot and you get cherry peppers; ask for sweet and you get the other kind."
 },
 "region": [
  "upstate-ny"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "course": "main"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "An Italian-American pasta dish from the Utica–Rome area of New York: chicken, rigatoni, and hot or sweet peppers in a spicy cream-and-tomato sauce. Variations are many; the peppers and the rigatoni are the constants.",
  "story": "Its origin is unclear, and many chefs from the Utica area claim the dish.\n\n*Inference —* that sentence is the same sentence upstate New York keeps writing about its own food. A hundred miles west, three Bellissimo accounts and one John Young compete over a wing; here a dozen Utica kitchens compete over a pasta, and in neither case does a document settle it. What both traditions do instead is hold contests.",
  "how": "Brown chicken, build a sauce of tomato and cream, and load it with peppers — cherry peppers for heat, sweet peppers for the other way. Toss through rigatoni, whose ridges and bore hold a sauce that thin-walled pasta would shed.",
  "today": "Served across the Utica–Rome corridor as a restaurant staple and a home dish. *Tradition holds —* riggies, greens and half-moons are the three things a Utica table names as its own."
 },
 "kin": [
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   "to": "buffalo",
   "as": "The other upstate New York dish whose origin a dozen people claim; same state, same kind of argument.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-origin-fight",
   "as": "Runs the same shape here: many claimants, no document.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "pizza-logs",
   "as": "The other Italian-American thing upstate New York fries and passes around.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "garbage-plate",
   "as": "Rochester's claim on a plate, sixty miles west of Utica's claim on a pasta.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-pitcher",
   "as": "What a riggies table drinks, the same as a wing table.",
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    "tier": "tradition"
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 "blurb": "An Italian-American pasta dish from the Utica–Rome area of New York: chicken, rigatoni, and hot or sweet peppers in a spicy cream-and-tomato sauce. Variations are many; the peppers and the rigatoni are the constants.",
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   "key": "upstate-ny",
   "name": "Upstate New York",
   "state": "NY",
   "note": "Syracuse, the Southern Tier, the Mohawk Valley"
  }
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   "to": "buffalo",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "Buffalo wings",
   "as": "The other upstate New York dish whose origin a dozen people claim; same state, same kind of argument.",
   "rel": "contrast"
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  {
   "to": "the-origin-fight",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The origin fight",
   "as": "Runs the same shape here: many claimants, no document.",
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  {
   "to": "pizza-logs",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "pizza logs",
   "as": "The other Italian-American thing upstate New York fries and passes around.",
   "rel": "kin"
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  {
   "to": "garbage-plate",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "Garbage Plate",
   "as": "Rochester's claim on a plate, sixty miles west of Utica's claim on a pasta.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-pitcher",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the pitcher",
   "as": "What a riggies table drinks, the same as a wing table.",
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  }
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   "title": "Chicken riggies",
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   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
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