Because math really does come in handy. From a guy who knows pies and pi, simple geometry reveals that two 8-inch pizzas are not equivalent to one 12-incher: ... the waitress came by with an 8-inch round pizza, explaining that another waitress had mistakenly given our pizza to someone else. She said we could have this 8-inch pizza now, and she’d have the cook throw another 8-inch pizza in the oven for us. She claimed that we’d be getting more total pieces of pizza, so this was a good deal for us. After doing some quick mental math (area of...
Down Under, Domino's mixes the classic Australian meat pie with the pizza pie: Until now, the most creative makeovers of the humble meat pie have involved stacking things on top of it. This week Domino's stacked it on something else.The Meat Pie Pizza comes with beef mince, onions, and peas topped with thick pastry and tomato sauce—and it looks about as pretty as a half-gobbled dog's eye. Crikey! Related: More fusion pizza on Slice...
On Serious Eats yesterday, we were talking about food-themed tattoos. How apropos that today I see this pizza tat. Man has pizza tattooed on head [CBBC Newsround]...
The folks at Grub Street, New York magazine's foodblog, try a mighty expensive pizza: "Made of crème fraîche, six kinds of caviar (including a sac-load of intense black Russian Royal Sevruga, the same kind used in Norma’s omelette), and shaved slices of fresh lobster, the sample sowed confusion in our proletarian ranks." Eh. You'd be an idiot to order one of these things. It's a waste of good pizza and good caviar. But, apparently, Bo Dietl purchased one. There's one born every minute. If you feel like being a sucker, the pizza is available at Nino's Bellissima Pizza, 890 Second...
Holy moly: Devout churchgoers have begun worshipping a pizza pan - after claiming the Virgin Mary has appeared amid the melted cheese, tomato and pepperoni. Virgin Mary appears on pizza pan [Metro.co.uk]...
I've been chronicling the evolution of insane doughnut-bunned fusion burgers over at Slice sister site A Hamburger Today, so it's somehow fitting that my Serious Eats coworker Alaina sent me the link to this Livejournal entry about a marshmallow-topped pizza. Unfortunately, the pizza itself actually sucked. The marshmallows had a weird effect on the taste of the cheese. It was how I imagine miracle fruit might work, except instead of making sour food taste like sweet food, it made cheese taste like moldy old gym sock. I couldn't taste the marshmallow at all, just rotten cheese. And I know...
Could you eat an entire 20-inch pizza by yourself? With two toppings? What if it guaranteed you free pizza for a year? Blogger Bear Silber reaches for the eye of the tiger: The Pizza and Pipes Belly Buster challenge was a success. A few men set out to make history, two became boys while one became a legend. What exactly is the Belly Buster challenge you ask. Simple, it’s a 20” pizza that must be consumed in one hour or less by one individual. To date many have tried but none have been victorious. The Hall of Shame is filled...
A Scottish chef has made what might be the world's most expensive pizza: The pizza is sprinkled with gold and topped with champagne-soaked caviar and lobster marinated in the finest cognac. Creator Domenico Crolla [right] said it was worth more than $3,700. Mr. Crolla is tying the pie in to the upcoming James Bond movie by calling it the "Pizza Royale 007" (" 'If any pizza was made to suit 007, this is it,' said Mr Crolla.") and will auction it off on eBay to raise money for a charity, the Fred Hollows Foundation, "which works to prevent curable blindness in...
New Zealand chain Hell Pizza, no stranger to controversy or clever gimmicks, has come up with a new one. For its new "Lust Pizza," a pie for, ahem, meat lovers, the company has been distributing pamphlets containing sex instructions and a condom. The viral campaign has aroused some criticism, as you'd imagine. From Hawkes Bay Today: Not only do they have the authority of government policy on their side in raising the profile of HIV-Aids-and-conception-free sex with each mouthful of their product, but they are guaranteed that those calculated to be most irritated immediately become, in spite of themselves, part...
New York Times science reporter Kenneth Chang answers reader questions about his recent story "Pluto's Exotic Playmates": Q: The article on the Kuiper Belt objects mentioned the solar system’s ecliptic plane, to which most planetary orbits seem to conform. I have seldom found any explanation as to why the essentially two-dimensional structure prevails in three-dimensional space. The influence of gas giants on the orbit of other objects in the system, as mentioned in your article, hints at a possible answer, especially if their orbits did, in fact, expand from a more compact form. It does not, however, explain why these...
