PrintProfessor Hopes to Create Pizza Program at Florida School
Pizza trade magazine PMQ and Christopher Muller, a Florida professor, hope to create the country's first university-based pizza research program at the University of Central Florida's Rosen School of Hospitality Management in Orlando.
Muller is proposing a national center to be part of the Rosen college, where five full- and part-time staffers would research trends, collect data and train restaurant owners and managers.Now, you may be thinking just as I was: Professor, we've gone our entire lives without a pizza institute in O-town. Do we really need one now?
Muller answers with an enthusiastic, "yes," reminding those who think his idea is half-baked that there are 69,000 pizza joints nationally. Each and every American consumes 46 pieces, or 23 pounds of the stuff, each year.
Perhaps this is the advanced degree I've been waiting for?
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You can read briefly about the institute in the Orlando Sentinel [Pizza institute idea seems fresh, first item] or listen to Dr. Muller discuss the idea on PMQ's Pizza Radio site [Dr. Christopher Muller : Dir. of the National Pizza Institute].
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3 Comments:
Ingredients 101: Brooklyn water 00 Flour Napolitan yeast strain Mozzarella di bufala San Marzano tomatoes Basil Go ye forth and make pizza!
Slice Brian Preston-Campbell at 10:51PM on 09/07/06
If only it were that easy, we'd all eat like pizza kings!
Adam Kuban at 1:36AM on 09/12/06
Sounds like Casa Nostra University to me. What's next, the Deliverator?
Slice Still @ Work at 1:52AM on 09/12/06