zeppola

plural zeppole · plural zeppoli · alternative zeppole

1. Any of several varieties of traditional fried pastry from southern Italy.

   These days it might be easier to pick up a Wi-Fi signal than a rice ball or some zeppole, but what’s nice is that the zeppole are still here: the neighborhood’s old guard has remained reassuringly in place.

   2009 January 25, Jeff Vandam, “Brio Inside the Brownstones”, in New York Times