Daily Slice: Howie's Artisan Pizza, Palo Alto, California

October! National Pizza Month! This month we'll be bringing you Daily Slice, quick snapshots of slices and pies all of us at the Serious Eats empire have been enjoying lately. —The Mgmt. [Photographs: Carey Jones] I spent much of my childhood listening to my Jersey-born father bemoan the lack of good pizza in Palo Alto, California, where I grew up. While my Bay Area hometown has a wealth of dining options for a city of its size, good pizza was never among them; Papa Murphy's Take and Bake was our pie of choice. (Not recommended.) So I was surprised and...

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4 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, October 2, 2010 at 2:00 PM
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Openings: Howie's Artisan Pizza, Palo Alto, California

[Photographs: Stephanie Lucianovic/Bay Area Bites] When I saw the photo of this pie from Howie's Artisan Pizza (Palo Alto, California) on KQED's Bay Area Bites blog, it immediately reminded me of Emilia's Pizzeria across the San Francisco Bay to the north in Berkeley. And also of Apizza Scholls in Portland, Oregon. Then I saw that author Stephanie Lucianovic was thinking along the same lines as she made the Scholls reference in her post. Lucianovic gives the pizza at Howie's Artisan a thumbs up, even despite the fact that she and her family did take-out and a quick home reheat...

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, December 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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