Iannelli’s Bakery is open only about 15 days a year. But there is a way around that.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Michael Klein

For the last seven years or so, Iannelli's Bakery in South Philadelphia opens only about 15 days a year — a veritable Brigadoon, selling Italian specialties such as tomato pie, stromboli, and crab gravy from a cramped Passyunk Avenue shop with an enormous brick oven.

Folks complain, so Vincent Iannelli, the third-generation owner, started shipping his tomato pies, along with his gravy (aka sauce).

Why not just keep a regular schedule? He has his reasons. Read the full article.