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Village Voice Responds to the Slice 'Flame'

Oh, wow. Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema responds on Fork in the Road to the stuff I wrote yesterday in response to the Voice's Best-of picks: And now, I have a new response: A) Minor distinction: It wasn't a "flame," it was the Truth Hammer. Flames are done in spirit of meanness. That was not. B) Sietsema has some good points ... He brings up a really interesting one about how "Neapolitan" pizza has been bastardized in the U.S.: New York pizza parlors that claim to make Naples-style pizzas are a joke on several levels, though sometimes they partly...

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New Pizza Style in NYC Uses Puff Pastry as Crust

Village Voice You know, I thought I had linked to this Village Voice blog post the day it came out in one of the daily(ish) Leftovers I do, but it looks like I didn't. Oh, well, I was going to give it its own post anyway, since it's totally worth it. The heart of the matter: Robert Sietsema has discovered a new pizza style in Manhattan at Birdbath Bakery: [Birdbath] has come up with a pizza based, not on the usual yeast- or sourdough-risen crust, but with a flaky puff pastry crust. The crust renders brittle and oily, and...

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Second Time at UPN Is No Charm for Village Voice's Sietsema

Robert Sietsema of the Village Voice revisits Una Pizza Napoletana and, as per his first word on the place, doesn't quite like it: The pies arrive literally smoking, with charred dough on one side or the other. I ate the standard Margherita, which shocked me with its $21 price tag, Sicilian sea salt or not. It was good, but a little too substantially charred for my taste, and the “bone” (the thickest part of the crust) was a little too doughy. Still, as an example of the Naples style, it was about 95% there.The other pizza I tried, the...

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