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La Rustique Bakeria; Jersey City, New Jersey

LA RUSTIQUE BAKERIA Address: 84 1/2 Morris Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (near Exchange Place) Phone: 201-860-4010 Hours: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sat-Sun 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. (hours can be quirky; call ahead) Payment: Cash and all major credit cards The Skinny: Takeout and delivery only, with some outdoor seating All photographs by Michael Parillo BY MICHAEL PARILLO .:::. As both a lifelong New Jerseyan and a pizza obsessive, I've been known to get gloomy about the state of the slice in my area. Too many ten-gallon cans of industrial-grade tomatoes, too much sweet and spongy dough....

1 Comment | Posted by correspondent, March 27, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Tagged: Correspondent, New Jersey, North Jersey, U.S., wood-oven

'USA Today' Pizza Roundup

The previous post about Ed Levine's top pizza picks drew some emailed and IMed responses that the choices were mostly all coastal and that there were no Chicago joints on it whatsoever. Well, here's a list that ran earlier this month in USA Today. In it, Jeff Ruby, coauthor of Everybody Loves Pizza (along with Penny Pollack), gives the paper his and Ms. Pollack's top spots: Metro Pizza [four locations, Las Vegas NV; metropizza.com] "The pizza menu at this gourmet oasis in the desert reads like a map of regional flavors. With grilled shrimp on the New Orleans, barbecued chicken...

3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 30, 2006 at 3:05 PM
Tagged: Arizona, Bay Area, best-of lists, California, Chicago, Connecticut, East Village, Flavor Guides, Frank Pepe's, Illinois, Las Vegas, Manhattan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Haven, New Jersey, New York, North Jersey, Northern California, NYC, Phoenix, Pizzeria Bianco, Sally's Apizza, Trenton, Twin Cities, U.S., Una Pizza Napoletana, Wisconsin, wood-oven

A Slice of Heaven: American Pizza Timeline

Here's the American Pizzeria Timeline, which includes only two non–Pizza Belt entries, Tommaso's and Uno's: 1905: Lombardi's, on Spring Street in New York City, is granted the nation's first license to sell pizza. 1910: Joe's Tomato Pies opens in the Trenton, New Jersey, Chambersburg neighborhood. 1912: Papa's Tomato Pies in Trenton opened by Papa, who learned his trade at Joe's. 1924: Anthony (Totonno) Pero leaves Lombardi's and opens Totonno's in Coney Island, New York. 1925: Frank Pepe opens on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut....

4 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, February 16, 2006 at 8:43 AM
Tagged: Bay Area, Boston, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, Coney Island, Connecticut, DeLorenzo's (Hudson), DeLorenzo's Tomato Pies, East Harlem, Flavor Guides, Frank Pepe's, Illinois, John's, Lombardi's, Manhattan, Massachusetts, New Haven, New Jersey, New York, NoLIta, North Jersey, Northern California, NYC, Patsy's (East Harlem), Pennsylvania, Pizza History, Pizza: A Slice of Heaven, Sally's Apizza, San Francisco, SoHo, The Village, Totonno's, Trenton

Book Report: 'Everybody Loves Pizza'

With a cover reminiscent of a retro pizza box and contents almost as tasty as the real thing, Everybody Loves Pizza, by Penny Pollack and Jeff Ruby, has earned a place on the Slice Bookshelf. Full disclosure: I know one of the authors. Mr. Ruby and I were in the same journalism program at university. Still, that didn't stop me from turning a critical eye on this book. In fact, my initial reaction when hearing about it was, "Oy! Another pizza book!? What more can be said?" Fortunately, Penny and Jeff find plenty new to say, particularly with some interesting...

2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, October 27, 2005 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: Bay Area, best-of lists, Books, California, Chicago, Connecticut, Di Fara, Flavor Guides, Illinois, New Haven, North Jersey, Northern California, NYC, Pizza History, Recommended, Una Pizza Napoletana