Chef Boyardee: The Sine Qua Non of Homemade Pizza
Chef Boyardee meant home and mom’s cooking and family being together. It WAS one of the Good Things, in a childhood that had a number of Bad Things in it for me.
Category: Food
I’ll Take My Pizza Ohio Valley Style…
Symposium: Not much has changed since the forties. Pizza slingers are still making DiCarlo’s Pizza the same way Primo did all those years ago up and down the Ohio Valley and beyond.
Little Cups of Grease and Other Reasons to Love This Pizza
Symposium: The pepperoni was in small round slices, maybe slightly larger than a quarter. You know, the kind that, when cooked, curls up at the edges and makes a crispy little cup of grease.
The Case For Detroit Pizza
Forget about New York or Chicago. Detroit-style pizza is best. It’s nearly impossible to mess up, and it’s very good if done well.
The Worst Day: My Story of Poly Royal, 1990
Symposium: The shouts of “FREE BEER!!” were being drowned out by the new sounds of “FREE PIZZA!!!”
Workin’ at the Pizza Shop
Symposium: Some of us just aren’t cut out for a career in America’s pizza-industrial complex
Pizza in Rome
Symposium: Some years ago I took a short holiday to Rome. Perhaps not the pizza capital of the world, but at the very least the capital of the pizza capital.
Pizza In The Sticks
Symposium: Friday nights meant getting some pizza at the plaza and going home and eating it in front of the television instead of eating it at the table.
When New York Pizza Became Better than Chicago Pizza
Symposium: That was the pizza that pushed Chicago deep-dish out of the #1 spot & confirmed what I had suspected in 2018 – New York pizza is actually better.
Pineapple Pizza is an abomination in the Eyes of The Lord.
Symposium: Pineapple on pizza isn’t just wrong, it’s an Abomination in The Eyes of The Lord. It says so in the Bible. Right there in Two Corinthians.
Crazy Bread and Circus: Little Caesars For The People
Symposium: When it’s 6:48pm on a Tuesday, you are broke, and the kids won’t shut up, you are going to Little Caesar’s for a $5 Hot-N-Ready pizza.
Tuna Pizza, the Spice of Social Media
Symposium: Hmm. I like tuna. I like pizza. I’m already experimenting – so why not?
One More Slice With Andrew
Symposium: It’s not surprising the Domino’s Pizza guys got to know Andrew to the point that they would actually worry about him. Andrew was an incredibly kind person.
I’ll take CPK any day.
Symposium: I can get any kind of food imaginable – most of it delivered to my front door. So naturally, I’m obsessed with the ONE pizza restaurant that is not.
That’s Amore!
So, why was I standing in a gas station convenience store next to the hot pizza slices promising never to eat pizza again?
We Go Where You Go, And We Bring Pizza
Symposium: This is down and dirty pizza; But that’s fine, the spartan pies from Anthony’s Pizza are meant for folks who aren’t expecting Neapolitan perfection.
