PHOTO OP Slice editor and publisher Adam K. (above) during a photo shoot Saturday for a small piece on piPod that the New York Daily News ran in today's edition.... More

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND A screen shot from Slice editor in chief Adam K.'s Outlook Express in-box. A good amount of the offbeat pizza news I regurgitate on Slice comes to my attention via Google News and its News Alert feature, which sends users e-mails whenever something moves on the wires with whatever search parameters the user has specified. Today at 6:28 p.m. EDT, I received a News Alert e-mail about piPod. How d'ya like them apples? I never thought this little guide would get this much attention. Since posting about it at 3 a.m. or so on Tuesday... More

Horn & Hardart's Automat | Berenice Abbott Proving the Japanese aren't the only innovators in the vending-machine racket is Italian vendo-maker WonderPizza. This company's machines bake and dispense pizza in less than two minutes. New Bedford, Mass.,–based Wonder Pizza USA has sole U.S. distribution rights for the machine and recently placed them at Brown University. The machine can store up to 102 pizzas, for 30 days, in a refrigerated unit. When a customer buys one, a mechanical arm removes it from its package and puts it into the oven section, where it is flashbaked. It's then sliced and delivered to... More