Jack Nicholson Can’t Get Enough of This Italian-American Bakery’s Bread

Perreca’s Bakery in Schenectady, New York, made The Daily Meal’s list of the 101 Best Pizzas in America for 2020, but the long-standing Italian-American bakery has another claim to fame: It’s reportedly a favorite of actor Jack Nicholson.

Perreca’s, which has an adjacent restaurant called More Perreca’s Italian Kitchen, came in at No. 70 on the Daily Meal list, which noted that it “uses a coal-fired oven to bake a much-desired bread, and the star of the show—tomato pie—gets seasoned red sauce with Romano and Parmesan cheeses served at room temperature.”

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But it’s not the tomato pie that attracts the Oscar-winning star of movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Chinatown. Nicholson took a “shining” (pardon the pun) to Perreca’s bread while filming Ironweed in the area back in 1987, according to WMHT. The legendary actor still has the bread shipped or carried by friends to his home in California.

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