Slice
No Love for New Jersey Pizza, Richman?
Dunno if you're tapped out on reading any more reactions to the Alan Richman Top 25 Pizza List, but I haven't yet seen someone from New Jersey get in on the pile up—until now. Here's Caroline from the blog Devil & Egg defending the Garden State's cheesy honor:
Now for my complaint, where's the Jersey representation!? What the friggin frick! I mean, come on. Providence, R.I., gets 2 pizzerias! New Haven gets 2! NYC gets 5 (and didn't include the original Patsy's in East Harlem)! Michigan gets 4!!!! San Francisco 3? Philly gets 2! And Jersey ... 0
Come on. New Jersey has a fine, and very well-respected history of pizza making, specifically another regional specialty known as the bar pie....
I feel this neglect by Mr. Richman is unjust--Jersey may not have squash pies topped with pine nuts or rosemary sprigs, but they still have something special. Really.
Admittedly, Slice is a bit weak in the Garden State pizza game—I don't have the car power to get around like I need to in the Jerz—but that doesn't stop me from rabble-rousing here.