From Sally's Apizza [Photograph: Adam Kuban] The New Haven Pizza Fest got underway last Thursday and Friday. While sadly two days are behind us, the good news is that the second half of the festival is this Thursday and Friday from 12-1:30 pm on the New Haven Green (map). If you can get there, why wouldn't you?! The festival is a fundraiser for The Connection Fund. They have had 483 pizzas donated from 28 area pizzerias, including their sponsors Modern Apizza, Abate, Tolli's, P&M, Born in America, and Marco Pizzeria. Slices are going for 3 bucks each or 2...
Colin of Slice Harvester is having a one-year anniversary party tomorrow night at the City Reliquary in Brooklyn. Part of the festivities include a pizza contest. I'll quote him: The event is from 6-10pm at City Reliquary and will be featuring, among other things, a WEIRD PIZZA CONTEST! Judged by myself, and two "celebrity judges," to quote from the press release, "prizes will be awarded to:Most SavoryMost SweetStrangest Combination of ingredientsFunniest Looking If you've followed Colin's adventures, you'd know that he only eats plain slices for his reviews. This, he says, is a chance for friends and readers to torment...
Photograph from Paulie Gee on Flickr On Saturday Slice–Serious Eats sponsored a talk called The Pieman's Craft as part of the New York Wine & Food Festival. A crowd of about 35 people showed up for the event, including some familiar faces—and some new faces that we were able to put to Slice screen names (which is always fun!). Noted pizza expert Ed Levine talked to Anthony Mangieri, drawing out his piemaking history and, eventually, his philosophy. Photograph from Paulie Gee on Flickr The session was also a bit of a juxtaposition of styles, with Ed bringing some Vinny...
Joey Chestnut, the reigning hot-dog-eating champ, handily crossed over to pizza earlier today in Times Square, eating 45 slices in 10 minutes. That's roughly 1.7 pizzas a minute. According to the New York Daily News, "He folded the slices—very quickly—and shoved them into his mouth. He jumped around some, to help them go down the hatch, or knocked back water from paper cups. He never appeared to chew. The slices were the typical cheese and tomato sauce variety, dished from a 16-inch pie carved into eight wedges."...
Slice reader Conduit Design Group just asked how Pizza Club No. 8 went. So, without further delay, the quick rundown. Numero Ocho was scheduled for this past Sunday at Coney Island. Unfortunately, so was a crappy nor'easter. Girl Slice and I made our way to Totonno's anyway, just in case any stalwart readers made the trip. Nobody did. Oh well. It turned into a soggy private date for just us two. We knew the Cyclone would be closed, but we exited at the Surf Avenue end of the station (above) because we had to meet any prospective attendees at noon...
The following events took place last Tuesday, March 6, at the Javits Center in Manhattan, during the New York Pizza Show. I was on hand to judge in PMQ magazine's America's Plate pizza competition. Contestants came from Canada, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, and the U.S. I had wanted to live-blog the proceedings, but I experienced technical difficulties early in the day. So, here is the tape-delayed version of last week's events. 9:31 a.m.: I enter the Javits Center. It's my first time here. Lots of tall glass and concrete. Doesn't seem very inspiring for a building that in many...
Contestant No. 3: 'The Gold Pizza', blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of Slice Just one of many pizzas I ate today at the New York Pizza Show. Sorry I didn't blog from it as promised. The Javits Center's wifi sucked and wouldn't let me on after I paid for access. Report coming ......
I'm heading over to the Javits Center, a big-ass convention center in Manhattan, to serve as a pizza judge in PMQ magazine's "America's Plate Competition," a pizza-off among several international pizzaioli—among others, contenders will include Americans, Chinese, Canadians, Luxembourgers, Italians, and Aussies (who, oddly enough, are the defending champs two years running). The contest is part of the New York Pizza Show, which has been going on since Sunday and ends today. While I'm there, I hope to get some pix, see some pizza sights, and possibly blog about it if there's wifi in there. (I'm assuming there's wifi...
IMG_6203.jpg, blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of gothamistllc Gothamist editor-at-large and friend of Slice Tien Mao served as judge last Saturday at the Best of Long Island Pizza contest. Five Long Island–based pizzerias competed in each of five categories: regular, marinara, Sicilian, grandma, and specialty. In Mr. Mao's words: Our favorites from the day were Paradiso for regular pizza, Prince Umberto's in Sicilian, Paradiso's in marinara, Antino's in grandma, and Paradiso's in the specialty pizza. The winners for best pizza were Prince Umberto's for best regular and Sicilian, Paradiso for best marinara, Antino's for best grandma, and...
Speaking of our birthday, how perfect is it that it falls in October, which, many of you know, is National Pizza Month. Yeah, it seems like a gimmick cooked up by the major chains to sell more pies, but there's at least one individual taking this monthlong celebration to heart in the most sincere of ways. Sean Taylor (with friends, above) is literally making this October into 31 days of pizza. In his own words: In order to observe this month "the right way," I intend to eat at least a slice of pizza a day. I hope to...
