These aren’t just good “for Delaware” or good “for a small-town bakery” – they’re objectively, universally, transcendently good. The kind of good that would make a French pastry chef nod in approval.

Local eateries serve up classics like chicken pot pie (the Pennsylvania Dutch version, which is more like a stew with square noodles than the crusted variety), schnitz un knepp (dried apples, ham, and ...