Every Saturday from October through May in St. Petersburg, Florida, a wide range of vendors gather at the Saturday Morning Market. Among the farmers, artists and cooks is Chris Schnuck who's been manning a portable wood-burning oven at public events all over Florida's Gulf Coast for the last two and a half years. More
Pizza Rustica dominates the Miami slice scene in South Beach with three outlet locations, all within walking distance of one another. Large, thin Sicilian-esque slabs are what populate their cases. The display of colors from all the toppings is enough to put you in a hypnotic pizza trance. More
Port Charlotte may not be a culinary hotspot, but gems like Bocca Lupo make this Southwest Florida town worth visiting, even if it's only to grab some coal-fired pizza. This white slice is smothered with a blend of ricotta, mozzarella, and marscapone cheese and topped with extra virgin olive oil and basil. More
Florida: Beaches, Disney World, retirement communities, swamps. Gators, this kind and that. Pastel art deco buildings. Crockett and Tubbs. A lot of things come to mind when you think of the Sunshine State, and though pizza might not necessarily be one of them, you might be surprised how much of the crusty, saucy, cheesy stuff is being cranked out in Florida. More
It's kinda long. Skip ahead to 3 minutes in for the pizza and the pizza ovens shaped like faces. [via UnaVia and Lou T]... More
Oh, boy. Another "it's the water" bit. This time coming not from a New Yorker or New York expat but from the folks at Disney World. The theme park megalomerate is opening a 300-seat pizzeria in Epcot Center's Italy Pavilion. It will feature wood-burning ovens. The pizzeria will be the newest flagship restaurant in the Patina Restaurant Group's portfolio. And one of the special touches at the Epcot location will be the water. It'll be imported from a source where the composition most resembles water used in Naples, Italy, to make the authentic Italian dough. Why not? Epcot has been... More
Lapp of worstpizza.com made an appearance today on West Palm Beach, Florida, CBS affiliate WPEC News 12. He says he's working on transferring the footage from his DVR, but until then, enjoy the making-of video. Reporter: "I've never analyzed my pizza!" Most sane people haven't, lady.... More
A new coal-oven pizza joint is set to open in Palm Bay, Florida, on Saturday, July 18. Looks like they're using an EarthStone coal oven. Fired Up Coal Oven Pizzeria 195 Malabar Road NW, Palm Bay FL 32907 321-727 - 3473; firedupcop.com... More
If you attended my Year in Pizza talk in early January, you know that 2008 saw a surge in the number of pizzerias using coal-fired ovens in the U.S. Since November 2007, Slice has kept a map of coal-oven pizzerias in the U.S., and in that time we've added countless new coalers. Not only has the rapidly increasing number of new coal pizzerias surprised us but where they're located has been interesting as well. Click through the jump for before-and-after maps.... More
Remember that news-of-the-weird type story about the Palm Coast, Florida, pizzeria owner who pistol-whipped a customer who complained about his calzone? The story gets weirder. The Daytona Beach News-Journal carries a story this morning that Goomba's Pizzeria owner Joseph Milano may in fact be Joey Calco, a mob informant who was supposed to be laying low in witness protection.... More
