OK, homeslices. It's been a while since I've done a pizza link roundup, so there's plenty on slate today. Enjoy.
Pizza on 30 Rock season opener: "Jenna (Jane Krakowski) has put on a zillion pounds while starring in "Mystic Pizza: The Musical" because of all the actual pizza she had to eat." Thursday, 8:30/7:30 central
Gwyneth's brother loves Di Fara: "That's worth making the trip. I think it's the best I've ever had by far. It's only underrated because it's out of Manhattan [Um, there's nothing underrated about it, Jake. The Mgmt.], but I think the general feeling from people who know far more than I do is, Di Fara's is the best pizza in the country."
Pizza quote of the day: "To me, shoes are like pizza: There is no bad shoe." Kelly Ripa
Grisham's new book titled Playing for Pizza.: It's apparently about a down-on-his-luck NFL player playing in the Italian leagues. We'll leave it to you to read and parse for significant pizza references. Or just wait for the movie.
Sao Paulo, Brazil, is crazy for pizza. Who knew?: "Sao Paulo is so serious about its pizza that for the last 22 years the city celebrates "Pizza Day" every July 10.... By some estimates, only New Yorkers devour more pizzas annually than Paulistanos. Sao Paulo is home to more than 6,000 pizza parlors that, in all, churn out close to a million pies a day, according to the local association of pizzerias."
Pizzeria heats up Anchorage music scene: Although, when the reporter cites Kenny G as a name act, one wonders if they should have left the scene in the freezer.
: "On Tuesday, September 9, 2001, his diary records, [British socialist politician] Tony Benn went shopping. Specifically, he went looking for his 'favourite triple-cheese pizzas,' which had inexplicably disappeared from the shelves of his local supermarket. 'I have,' he notes, 'eaten two of them every day for years.'
Pie after pie: A roundup of pizza recipes from various food bloggers.
And a video from YouTube showing a pizza-maker makin' pizza: