Entries tagged with 'Milwaukee'
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Maria's Pizza, Milwaukee
Maria's Pizza is soul food. Not in the traditional sense, of course—there are no collard-green or barbecue pizzas on the menu at this 52-year-old Milwaukee institution. Maria's brand of soul derives mostly from the love, hard work, and comfortable familiarity of the second- and third-generation family members who staff the place, providing hungry Milwaukeeans with rectangular trays of oblong pizzas.Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Head to Zaffiro’s for Milwaukee-Style!
Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, heads north this week and checks in with a piece of pizza intel from Milwaukee. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza with his friends on the Chicago Pizza Club blog. —The Mgmt. "The cheese is, as you would expect in Wisconsin, plentiful and of very good quality. The layer of mozzarella is three or four times thicker than the crust." On Saturday, I made my first trip to Wisconsin since I watched Carlos Zambrano throw a no-hitter in September. As enjoyable as that visit was, since the stadium was filled almost exclusively with Cubs...The Pizza of Milwaukee—A Cut Apart
From the Slice mailbag, this time from my cousin Aimee ... Hi Adam, It's your cousin in Milwaukee. Today there was a cute article in the Journal about Milwaukee-style pizza. Apparently, it's mainly the way the pizza is cut that separates us. The square-cut pizza is not popular outside the Midwest. You know, I can't even remember the last time I had a pizza that wasn't cut into squares. Here's the link: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=670826 —Aimee...Maria's Pizza
Grandma Slice sent me this clipping from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel a couple weeks ago. I figured I better scan it and get it up on the site before she thinks I'm ignoring her. I was born in Milwaukee and have family there, and most times when we'd visit, Pa Slice would insist on a trip to Maria's Pizza. Maria's is wacky and it's definitely not New York–style pizza. I'll let the newspaper clipping speak for me. Click on it to enlarge and read....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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