Daily Slice: The Mast'Nicola from Kesté Pizza & Vino

The Mast'Nicola at Kesté is all about the crust. Nothing more than a stretched crust topped with a thin scattering of Pecorino Romano, a few basil leaves, and some thin strips of lardo, it's what Caporuscio calls, "...the original pizza. What they ate before they had tomatoes in Italy."

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7 Comments | Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, September 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: Daily Slice, Kesté, Kesté Pizza And Vino, nyc

NYC Pizza Cultural Literacy

Here's the tweet that inspired this post:

Yes, @alexandrak, such a post does exist, and if your boyfriend finds what I'm about to write all TL;DR, he can check it out: The 10 Best Pizzas in NYC » That's a solid list, no doubt. And if his NYC pizza research stops there, I'm sure he'd be happy. But I think simply dropping a best-of list on a New York newbie does him a bit of a disservice. After all, he's moving to a pizza mecca. I think a little context is in order.

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41 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 5, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Tagged: Arturo's, Best Pizza, best pizza lists, best-of lists, Di Fara, Forcella, Joe and Pat's, Joe's Pizza, John's, Kesté, L and B Spumoni Gardens, Lombardi's, Louie and Ernie's, Lucali, Motorino, Paulie Gee's, Roberta's, Rosario's Italian Deli, Sal and Carmine's, Totonno's