Dear Slice: Boston May Have Had the First Pizza in the U.S.
Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got ... GenealogyBank.com (a subscription service) has been adding the Boston Journal. I went through it and found the following long, interesting article [subscription required] on pizza, from 1903. This is two years before Lombardi's establishment opened on Spring Street in New York City, the so-called first pizzeria in America.A similar, 1905 article from the New York Sun about pizza on Spring Street is on the Library of Congress website, FYI. Both articles spell it pizze. --Barry Popik P. S.: I just added a post on Pizza Margherita.... More
