Pizza from a Backyard Coal Oven on Staten Island

Posted by Adam Kuban, July 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM

On Staten Island, 84-year-old Sylvia Prestia has been making pizza for decades in a makeshift coal oven. From the Atlantic Food Channel:

Only in Staten Island could a pizza like this be the next best thing to eating meat, a pie created in 2008 for the meatless Fridays of Lent. Only in Staten Island could that pizza be called "The Passion of the Crust," and come with a free T-shirt declaring, "IT'S ABOUT THE PASSION!!" Only in Staten Island could that very same pizza spark so much outrage, it was featured on the front page of the local paper.

Paulie Gee, whatchu got to say about this?

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Tags: Atlantic Food Channel, coal-oven, NYC, Staten Island, Sylvia Prestia

3 Comments:

Well, we love the passion! She's taller than Lillian's grandma, but I would LOVE to taste Sylvia's pizzas...

So much pizza, so little time. Can you tell I'm hungry?

passion4pizza at 5:19PM on 07/10/09

"Paulie Gee, whatchu got to say about this?"

Passion of the crust - Brilliant. Simply f**kin' brilliant.

And I write this from The Bermuda Inn. At an engagement part nicer than almost any wedding I've been too.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 9:41PM on 07/10/09

I failed to mention that The Bermuda Inn is on Staten Islamd.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 10:52PM on 07/10/09

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