Queens: Home to some great pizza and also to a bunch of different folks from around the globe. Mix the two, and it's only a matter of time before something like kimchee pizza is invented. From the Bayside News: [Tony] Sala has owned [T.J.’s Pizzeria & Restaurant] at 136-99 Roosevelt Ave. for 15 years. In that time, the neighborhood has shifted from being home to predominantly European immigrants to becoming a Korean and Chinese hub. To adapt, Sala took a suggestion 12 years ago from the Korean doctor who delivered two of his six children. “When he heard I had...
Summer wouldn't be summer without summer news stories. You'd think pizza would be relatively safe from the seasonal treatment, but Pizza Marketplace got the scoop on this interesting tidbit about a shoreside pizzeria that delivers to boaters via JetSki: Now [Leesa Shrewsbury's] delivery service operates on holidays and weekends serving boaters ordering on their cell phones. Finding the customers' boats, Shrewsbury said, can be tricky if they don't supply detailed descriptions. She uses a walkie-talkie-type system to communicate with the Shore Store in case she needs better instructions. Navigating the waters safely while holding on to the pizzas is a...
Tonight Slice made it to BAM Rose Cinemas to see the movie Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating. Conti lives in the East Village and is a member of the International Federation of Competitive Eaters, a New York–based organization that oversees and sanctions a number of competitve-eating contests throughout the nation and the world. The movie takes the audience along for the ride as Mr. Legs goes from competitive-eating fan to competitve-eating athlete. What does this have to do with pizza? After the screening, there was a Q&A session with Mr. Legs, IFOCE chairman George Shea,...
THE CHE GUEVARA OF PIZZA The Noid was part of a late-80s–early-90s Domino's ad campaign. His mission in the TV spots: scuttle the chain's attempts to deliver hot, fresh pizza to the customer. At the time, the Noid's covert activities were universally reviled. With the historical perspective that time affords, however, Slice scholars now view the Noid in a different light. Like many a revolutionary-turned–national hero, the Noid should be celebrated and revered as a man who risked life and limb to protect unwitting pizza-eaters from uneatable evil. We at Slice are not alone in this conviction. This website expresses...
AS BIG AS SOME OF THE RATS WE SEE IN NEW YORK A photo of Chuck E. Cheese doing what he does best—scaring the pants off the young tykes while annoying the hell out of parents. This photograph and the one below are courtesy of Eric Neely, from his series on the ridiculously sized rodent. Thanks, Eric! From the New York Times: A teenager dressed as pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese was pelted with pizza and threatened with a beating by an angry parent who said the mascot wasn't paying enough attention to her child, police said. Macon police reported...
What to get for the pizziola in your life who has everything? Why, pizza jewelry, of course! If you're on a budget (the price of a slice has gone up lately, after all), synthetic-ruby pepperoni are available. The baubles are available in the precious metal of your choice (silver or gold), and, in the New York fashion, come as slices or whole pies; a Sicilian-slice charm is also available. Don't forget the gold pizza cutter if you really want to show how much you care. If you're ready to make the ultimate romantic gesture, surprise the lady in your life...
You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen: Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas won this year's Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship! Slice just got off the phone with a very nice young woman at Bacci Pizza (so nice, in fact, that we almost felt a little bad about how we diss Windy City pie so much). Through a spotty cell-phone connection on my end (crappy T-Mobile), I was able to confirm word of the Black Widow's victory. How much she ate is still a matter of uncertainty, but I think I heard the nice Bacci employee say "six and three-quarters."...
CAUGHT IN HER WEB Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, ranked No. 1 in the United States by the International Federation of Competitive Eaters, will go mouth to mouth against some of the biggest eaters in the world Saturday as she participates in the Bacci World Pizza Eating Championship in Chicago. We've been fans of hers since she won the first-ever turducken-eating contest last Thanksgiving. She is the stuff dreams are made of. We've seen competitive eaters chow down on some pretty rank stuff (bovine testicles and brains, anyone?) in their quest to eat themselves to fame and fortune. But on...
Prince Abdullah of Jordan is apparently a fan of Domino's pizza. From the Post's Page Six today: "IT was the kind of Thursday night at Cafe Milano a transplanted New Yorker would have savored," our man in D.C. reports. "Big-topped women, the air thick with Cuban cigar smoke, and every table up front filled with the glitterati . . . In one corner there was Dominick Dunne, still spewing invective over the Nicole Brown Simpson murders." In a different corner, reports our correspondent, who wished not to be ID'd, "sat Prince Abdullah of Jordan, fresh from a Domino's Pizza run...
For those of you into pizza and pleasure (aren't they one and the same?), reader Tien found the following post on Craig's List: ALL PLEASURES ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL !! Sample the five different types of pleasures and experience how Jewish insight and wisdom can help you maximize what life has to offer at a witty thought provoking presentation in the Romainisheh Shul. Wednesday June 9 at 7:30PM FREE PIZZA AT 7PM with RSVP 89 Rivington Street (btw Ludlow and Orchard) RSVP 1-888-883-4726 or rick@discoveryproduction.com www.discoveryproduction.com We would hope there are more than five different types of pleasure, but they've...
