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'New Jersey Monthly' Searches for the Soul of Jersey Pizza

Posted by Adam Kuban, February 6, 2010 at 8:00 PM

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Al Santillo Jr. of Santillo's Brick Oven Pizza serves a couple customers at his pizzeria in Elizabeth. [Photograph: NJMonthly.com]

Great article in New Jersey Monthly in which author Laura Schenone searches for the soul of the Garden State's pizza:

My assignment was to search for the soul of New Jersey pizza. What is its essential nature? With thousands of pizza joints in the state, it's an impossible task. And yet, after much eating, driving, tasting, and talking to makers and experts, I came up with a few theories:

1. Pizza is highly subjective.
2. Our pizza roots run deep.
3. New Jersey pizza came into its own after 1945.
4. Techniques vary.

With 25 perfect pies, celebrity picks and the history of Trenton tomato pies.

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