I'll be speaking as part of a fun year-end wrap-up at Union Hall in Park Slope. My topic? Pizza, what else? Also speaking will be Patrick Di Justo with "Things We Lost" (the bygones of 2008) Joe Garden with "Welcome to the Night" (the year in vampires), and Marian Salzman with "The Year of Payback" (why the buzzword for 2009 will be "reboot"). The retrospective will be 2009's first installment of Adult Education, self-described as "a useless lecture series" and also as "a monthly event series where various speakers present brief, multimedia lectures on a shared theme." Attendees are advised... More

I recall a certain episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which the android Mr. Data is told that although his recital of Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" is technically perfect, it lacks soul. That's how I feel about most of the Neapolitan-style pizza I've tried. When it's done right, it's delicious but often lacks a nice crispness, and its daintiness is almost always just a little less than satisfying. So when Girl Slice and I met up with some of her friends at Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco's Mission District over the holidays, I was prepared to be... More

Raphael here in the office just asked, "I want to know, officially, is it 'Co.' or 'Company'?" So I just called. Co.: "Hello, Co." Me: "Adam Kuban here, from Slice, America's Favorite Pizza Weblog." Co.: "Um, yes?" Me: "So there's been some confusion about your name. Are you 'Co.' or 'Company'?" Co.: We're 'Co.' as in 'company.'" Does that sort out any confusion, Raphael? It's still sort of a nonanswer answer. But we'll just make the call and say that we'll refer to it on Slice officially as "Co." and pronounce it as co.... More

Happy New Year! I may have had a New Year's Day revelation—even I'm getting tired of rolling out The Year That Was across Serious Eats land. So for today, we're going to finish this off with the best food porn across the SE sites. It's not like a lot of us have the capacity today to do more than look at pretty pictures anyway. Mmm. Beautiful pictures. Drool, mmm, click. Pizza Showdown: The Best Delivery Pizza »... More

"It hasn’t yet offered me a perfect meal. But it improved enough between two visits to inspire hope that Motorino will eventually launch itself into the upper strata of the city’s pizzerias." [New York Times]... More

"Our pizzas are not always round." Clockwise from top left: Co. opened with a soft launch this evening; there were actual people from the general public in the dining room. As FOS Kathryn Yu said, from the outside, it looks less like a pizzeria than a fancy Asian restaurant. One of the stars of the evening, the Ham and Cheese pie. (You can click all images bigger.) When I checked in late afternoon to find out if Co. really was opening on Friday, the gentleman in the dining room told me, "Yes—and tonight, too." It was a sort of soft... More

After other food blogs reported that Co. would open on Friday, January 2, Slice walked its lazy ass over to the joint to confirm. Turns out it's actually OPEN TONIGHT for a soft-launch dinner service. Closed tomorrow and Thursday, and then officially open Friday. We're there now and will have pictures in the morning. Why don't you head down and see if you can find us there. Co. 230 Ninth Avenue, New York NY 10001 (at West 24th Street; map)... More

So, yeah, this has been on Flickr since March 2007, but Raphael just pointed it out to me now. When I was a kid and my dad owned a pizzeria, we used dough dockers to prevent this, but when I get a slice with a bubble, I quite like how it pulls up, sloughs off its cheese and gets extra crisp. This is the biggest pizza bubble I've ever seen. But if you've seen one bigger, send me a pic or a link to one, and who knows, maybe I'll send you something from the pile of pizza crap... More

Currently at $15.99 on eBay. From the description: "SALE OF THE NEW YEARS!!... Molded Hair - Cool Pizza Hut Outfit with pizza & Pepsi.... Picture does not do him Justice!!!"... More

The Year That Was slogs along, with a look back at the cheesy, saucy, crusty trends that shaped pizza in 2008—in roughly chronological order. Pizzeria Bianco Mania Pizzeria Bianco has popped up again and again on Slice, but 2008 seemed to be the year that everyone visited the place but me. Longtime reader/commenter Philip G., checked in with the first-ever video pizza upskirt with a Bianco slice; then DJ Bubbles went; then Slice reader Lance Roberts. Finally, Chris Bianco himself appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's show. Pizza Beer Debuts mammamiapizzabeer.com Beer and pizza go great together. It was only a matter... More