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Jim Lahey Pontificates on Pizza

[Photograph: Adam Kuban] Noted no-knead breadman and Co. Company founder Jim Lahey discourses on pizza as he sees it (even lapsing into the third person) on The Atlantic Food Channel: I sought to open Co., to create this organic place. What I mean is, I don't ask my kitchen staff to manipulate ingredients to fit some pre-exisiting ideal of how a pizza should look. We don't place each piece of cheese perfectly on a pie--where it lands, it lands. Our menu tells guests: "Our Pies are Not Always Round." It's a joke but it isn't. People expect pies to...

7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 21, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Tagged: Atlantic Food Channel, Co., Company, Jim Lahey

Pizza from a Backyard Coal Oven on Staten Island

Joseph L. Nizza/Atlantic Food Channel 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...

3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: Atlantic Food Channel, coal-oven, NYC, Staten Island, Sylvia Prestia