eattoblog.com OK, I'm not just linking to this story because Howard from Eat to Blog totally agrees with me on how awesome Maria's Pizza in Milwaukee is. He brings up something I think I only glossed over in my post: the pizzas are HUGE. I used this photo my sister took of me with the pizza to give you a sense of scale. Look at the size of this thing! Note the crazy look in my eyes as I realize we ordered too much food. Or did we? My first bite of the pizza threw me off. The sauce... More

Maria's Pizza is soul food. Not in the traditional sense, of course—there are no collard-green or barbecue pizzas on the menu at this 52-year-old Milwaukee institution. Maria's brand of soul derives mostly from the love, hard work, and comfortable familiarity of the second- and third-generation family members who staff the place, providing hungry Milwaukeeans with rectangular trays of oblong pizzas. More

Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, heads north this week and checks in with a piece of pizza intel from Milwaukee. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza with his friends on the Chicago Pizza Club blog. —The Mgmt. "The cheese is, as you would expect in Wisconsin, plentiful and of very good quality. The layer of mozzarella is three or four times thicker than the crust." On Saturday, I made my first trip to Wisconsin since I watched Carlos Zambrano throw a no-hitter in September. As enjoyable as that visit was, since the stadium was filled almost exclusively with Cubs... More

Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got ... I just discovered the same way Columbus discovered the new world, since really it was there the whole time! Anyway, cool. I love pizza. Though I am pretty married to just getting plain slices. Toppings are for suckers! But anyway, your site reminds me of my mom's photo obsession: pictures of pizza places. I don't know why, but she always takes photos of pizza signs when she travels. It's gotten to the point that I take them for her when I travel. But so far my favorite was Pizza Doctors... More

Photograph from John Kannenberg on Flickr I thought I had blogged about this crazy phenomenon already, but a search through the Slice archives brought up bupkes on it. The thing at right is a slice of pizza topped with mac and cheese. It's sold—where else?—in the Dairy State, Wisconsin, Madison, to be exact. At a joint called Ian's Pizza. The University of Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal gives some insight into the founder Ian Gurfield's motives: "Gurfield, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts, opened his first Ian’s location on Frances Street in 2001—when he was only 21 years old. He... More

From the Slice mailbag, this time from my cousin Aimee ... Hi Adam, It's your cousin in Milwaukee. Today there was a cute article in the Journal about Milwaukee-style pizza. Apparently, it's mainly the way the pizza is cut that separates us. The square-cut pizza is not popular outside the Midwest. You know, I can't even remember the last time I had a pizza that wasn't cut into squares. Here's the link: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=670826 —Aimee... More

Grandma Slice sent me this clipping from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel a couple weeks ago. I figured I better scan it and get it up on the site before she thinks I'm ignoring her. I was born in Milwaukee and have family there, and most times when we'd visit, Pa Slice would insist on a trip to Maria's Pizza. Maria's is wacky and it's definitely not New York–style pizza. I'll let the newspaper clipping speak for me. Click on it to enlarge and read.... More