Entries tagged with 'Italy'
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Buffalo Mozzarella Scare Seems To Be Abating
According to the New York Times, Italy's buffalo mozzarella scare seems to be abating: "The Italian buffalo mozzarella industry seems to finally be getting somewhere in its efforts to combat a dioxin-contamination scare that has been clobbering cheese sales."...Buffalo Mozzarella Dioxin Scare Widens
As you may or may not know, there's a lot of hoo-hah going on about garbage in and around Naples, Italy. The city's dumps were declared full and shut down late last year, and trash was allowed to pile up in the streets, spurring illegal dumping on the outskirts of town. What's this have to do with food, and more specifically, pizza? Well, it's outside of Naples where that prized pizza ingredient, buffalo mozzarella, is made. And now, dioxin, possibly from toxic trash, has been found in some shipments of the cheese. This new story picks up where an earlier...Mozzarella and the Mozzer
Morrissey. If you're familiar with the man and his music, the word mope springs to mind long before mozzarella does. Although, with nicknames like "Moz" or "Mozzer," you might be excused were you to search for a pizza connection to the former Smiths frontman and lyricist. Such was the case this morning when I plopped down at my desk after having seen the man in action at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom last night. In fact, the evening started with a couple slices of pizza at nearby New York Pizza Suprema. Doors opened early for the show, so my fellow fans...Eat Pizza for Smoother Skin
It sounds like something you'd see on a late night infomercial, but an Italian nutritionist has created an "anti-wrinkle" pizza: At least eight vegetables or sauces in the pizza allegedly create the anti-oxidant effects against aging: tomatoes, rocket, garlic, courgettes, basil, mushrooms, carrots, and spinach. The Italian association that verifies Neapolitan pizza as being truly authentic is crying foul over the whole-wheat crust....Rome: Taverna della Scala Ristorante
Reaching into the Slice mailbag today we find a tasty-looking photo from reader Paul Lang: Adam, I'm a fan of the blog and recently went to Europe for a quick trip. In Rome (Trastaverre was the specific neighborhood), my wife and I ate at Taverna della Scala Ristorante. We had a terrific pizza Margherita (photo attached) that had the perfect combination of crisp crust, appropriate amount of cheese, and fresh tomato sauce. Combined with the €9 house wine and a long day of hiking the city, this pizza really hit the spot. I thought I would send along the pizza...Judging in the America's Plate Pizza Competition
The following events took place last Tuesday, March 6, at the Javits Center in Manhattan, during the New York Pizza Show. I was on hand to judge in PMQ magazine's America's Plate pizza competition. Contestants came from Canada, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, and the U.S. I had wanted to live-blog the proceedings, but I experienced technical difficulties early in the day. So, here is the tape-delayed version of last week's events. 9:31 a.m.: I enter the Javits Center. It's my first time here. Lots of tall glass and concrete. Doesn't seem very inspiring for a building that in many...A Slice of Heaven: Naples, Pizza at Its Source
Slice is happy to bring you another excerpt from Ed Levine's book Pizza: A Slice of Heaven. This time, Ed's trip to Naples. Be sure to click past the jump for a list of some of Napoli's—and Rome's—best pizzerias. The pizza police, dedicated to the proposition that authenticity is everything, tell us that you cannot judge or taste pizza properly without having eaten it in Naples. Pizza wasn't invented in Naples (there have been flatbreads with toppings for thousands of years), but it is the place where pizza became popular, and where this perfect, simple food burrowed itself deep into...Photo Gallery: Robert Sietsema Visits Naples
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT SIETSEMA .::. A couple days ago, Robert Sietsema offered to let Slice post some of his photos from his recent trip to Naples. Before you take a gander, though, I'd recommend that you go read his account on the Village Voice site. It'll help put the photos in context. OK. have you read Mr. Sietsema's column yet? Good. Now here are the pix. Be sure to click on them for larger versions, and click through the jump. There's more! Naples street scene. Photograph by Robert Sietsema Da Michele exterior. Photograph by Robert Sietsema Da Michele interior. Photograph...Sietsema Visits Da Michele in Naples
Robert Sietsema visits Naples, making stops at the legendary Da Michele as well as nearby pizzeria Trianon. Regarding Da Michele: The menu is limited to a pair of amazing pies. Most modern is the margherita (4 euros)óinvented in 1885 on the occasion of a visit from Queen Margherita of Savoia, probably the first pizza to feature cheese, which joins sieved canned tomatoes, a generous pouring of olive oil from an antique pitcher, a basil leaf or two, and sea salt on the surface of the pie. The older of the pies, called marinara (3.5 euros), has its origins in Mediterranean...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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