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We get this question with some regularity, and there seems to be some conflicting information.
We inquired with Molino Caputo, in Naples, and they told us that the Chef’s flour in the red 1 kilo (2.2 lb) bags is the same flour as the Rinforzato (translated: “Reinforced”), which comes in the red 55 lb bags.
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It’s only the customers who fight over who is the best on Wooster Street in New Haven.
Sally’s and Pepe’s are the main rivals. Abate’s (a relative newcomer) is included in this video, but I’ve never known them to be part of the debate.
Modern Pizza, another New Haven pizzeria that isn’t located on Wooster Street has [...]
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Despite pizza’s being around for hundreds of years in various forms, and since 1889 in it’s current form (crusts, sauce, and cheese), pizza apparently hadn’t hit in Canada as of 1957:
What is “nippy cheese”?
The header image shows Queen Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy – for which the Margherita Pizza was named after.
…and again, thank [...]
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Working with a wood fired oven, you can easily get it over 900°F. Slide the pizza in, a minute and a half later, you can slide out a perfectly done, thin crust, Neapolitan masterpiece.
If you’re stuck with a conventional oven that tops out at 500-550°F, you might think you can’t come close to a wood [...]
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“I do.”
Couple Marries at Pepe’s Pizza in New Haven.
Awww.
Congratulations to Gus and Pamela DaSilva, who came from Indiana to help his son get ready to deploy to Iraq. While they were here, decided to get married right there in Pepe’s.
I got a kick out of some things said in the comments section for the [...]
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You’ll thank us for this tip the next time you dominate your friends in a game of Scrabble.
So you’re down to your two last letters, and there there just aren’t any options on the board that are going to let you use your last A and your last Z. Grrr! I hate when [...]
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Here is a terrific video showing how A16 in San Francisco makes their Neapolitan pizza:
It’s just after 8am and now I just want to skip breakfast and go get some lunch. The only thing that’s stopping me, the trip from CT to CA. I could go to Pepe’s or Sally’s I guess. That’s only about [...]
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There are lots of places in the US where the pizza is so bad that giving it to your kids ought to be considered child abuse. But is throwing a slice of pizza at ones daughter after she mouthed off at her father an actual crime? Apparently in Florida, it is!
Dad Accused of [...]
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Exhibit A: We went to the Fancy Food Show last weekend, and came across Pizza in a Cone. You might think that at a fancy food show that this might be some kind of treat masterfully put together by a chef from fresh ingredients just presented in a unique way. You’d be wrong.
We chuckled at [...]
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Surely there is some budding entrepreneur who can address this niche market which the rest of the pizza industry has ignored.
“It is impossible in space; we don’t have it, someone would get a Nobel Prize if they can figure out how to get pizza in space.” — Mike Massimino, astronaut (Seen at the Slice Pizza [...]
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