Keep It Fresh
October 26th, 2022
One of the things that Italians have taught us through their cuisine is that the use of fresh ingredients can elevate a piece of dough to indescribable levels. Take the Margherita pizza for example: just tomato and cheese with fresh, aromatic basil scattered on top. It doesn’t get any simpler than that, yet it’s unarguably […]
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The American Pizza Dream
August 2nd, 2022
During the late 19th Century millions of Italians left their motherland and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to a faraway continent in search of new beginnings and prosperity. The place they landed upon was a young country known as the United States of America, with many arriving on ships at the port city of New […]
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Hot, Hot, Hot – Pizza in the Spotlight
June 26th, 2022
They say pizza is life. And by they I mean Nicolas Cage, an actor who has sparked as much debate as the pineapple topping, in the movie Moonstruck (1987). Well, he was actually talking about bread, but what’s pizza if not an elevated version of this popular baked dough. Today’s article is all about hot […]
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Dip It Like It’s Hot
February 16th, 2022
It’s curious how such a friendly item like pizza can trigger so many arguments. From dough to toppings, every aspect of this celestial pie sparks polarization among its devotees. Perhaps it’s precisely its godlike essence that elicits the most passionate opinions. There is one certainty, though, a universal truth that is arguably unarguable: pizza […]
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The Past and Present of the Pizza Oven
December 26th, 2021
“For six thousand years and more it is the oven, however crude or complex, which has transformed the sticky wet dough into bread” say Ronald Sheppard and Edward Newton in their 1957 book called The Story of Bread. Perhaps even before they discovered how to make it, humans might have utilized the fire that was […]