Entries tagged with 'Russia'
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For Some Real Frozen Pizza, Try Siberia
We're always interested in instances of expatriate New Yorkers opening pizzerias in lands far from home, moving into a market to capitalize on the perceived lack of good pies. Usually that means Las Vegas, Kansas City, or elsewhere in the United States. We never thought that phenomenon would occur in Siberia. It did, except that the expat New Yorker is an expat Minnesotan. Eric Shogren (right) has built up an impressive empire of New York–style pizza chains in Novosibirsk: Shogren is the founder of New York Pizza, Siberia's fastest-growing fast-food chain. His little empire includes 14 New York Pizza joints,...Psoy Saucy
In our previous entry, we talked about a modern-day urban explorer, the Lonesome Hero, who in turn spoke a little about Russia and pizza by way of explaining his "Pizza World Tour." And so, speaking of pizza in Russia and Russians and pizza, and pizza world tours, we bring you a crazy little song by Psoy Korolenko, a "singing professor, dancing scholar, and academical bodysinger" from Russia. Mr. Korolenko sings a song about pizza, which our pal Cyrus alerted us to. (He found it here.) "Have you listened to it yet?" Cyrus asked me repeatedly. "Not yet." "You have to...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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