by Mark on April 30, 2009
Antimo Caputo 00 flour isn’t easy to find. You can get it from us if you don’t have an Italian specialty import store that carries it in your neighborhood. Yesterday I took a trip into Little Italy in the Bronx (Arthur Ave) with my family and a few friends. Amongst all of the wonderful imported [...]
by Mark on April 26, 2009
Yale University is about five or six blocks away from New Haven’s famous Wooster St., where you can find some of the world’s best pizza at Sally’s and Pepe’s. Yale has a brick oven of their own, located at their campus garden. They’re using it to lure students away from the downtown campus to learn [...]
by Mark on April 23, 2009
Researchers working on standing wave ultrasonic motors (SWUMs), were trying to describe the physics involved when they realized that they operate on similar principles as pizza tossing. “The dough spins just like the rotor spins because the chef tosses the rotor just like the motor does; the differences between the two are just really in [...]
by Mark on April 14, 2009
This is a simple recipe from A16: Food + Wine. I will paraphrase it here. One 28 oz can of San Marzano tomatoes 1-2 teaspoons kosher salt Pour the can of tomatoes into a bowl and break the whole tomatoes apart into small pieces with your hands. Do not use a food processor as it will [...]