"Uh oh ... Now you've got to bring that freezerload back to Key Food." --Mark H., Slice reader Possible E. coli contamination is behind a recall of certain Jeno's and Totino's frozen pizza made on or before October 30. The pizzas and pizza products in question are those that contain meat, unsurprisingly. Full details on the recalled pies at the link below. Illnesses prompt recall of Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas [dailypress.com]... More

You know, I have a really strange weakness for those ultra-processed, super-questionable 99¢ Totino's/Jeno's frozen pizzas. It's probably a comfort-food thing, since I grew up eating these for lunch during the summer when school was out. So I was drawn to Paupered Chef Nick Kindelsperger's take on gussying up the old standby snack. The whole conceit of Nick's post is that, having moved to Ohio from New York, Naples-style pies (the ideal pizza for topping in such a manner) are hard to come by. His solution: The easiest way to have a thin crust pizza at home is, sadly,... More

I've been sitting on this story for a few weeks now, but in cleaning out my "To Blog" folder I happened upon it again. It's a bit old, but, hey, it's about frozen pizza--it's got a long shelf life. Anyway, it's a short history of frozen pizza from Invention & Technology magazine dating to early 2005. It never appeared here because it predates the site. I've been thinking a lot about frozen pizza lately and thought it was interesting and figured I'd share. It details the beginnings of frozen pizza--from the Celentano Brothers and Rose and Jim Totino--to today's rising-crust... More

I've always had a thing for frozen pizza. As a kid, I devoured box after box of Pizza Fours, individual snack-sized pies that unsurprisingly came four to a box. By the time I got to college, I had kicked the frozen pizza habit, mostly because we could buy pizza pretty late into the evening at Pagliai's and Ahrvano's. It wasn't the greatest pizza in the world, but I was in Grinnell, Iowa. I needed sustenance, and it was cheap and filling. Frozen pizza has come a long way since my Pizza Four days. In fact, according to a May 2004... More

Earlier this week, Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine arrived at the office with a new brand of frozen pizza he had just found. "It's a Neapolitan-style pie imported from Italy," he said. "It's supposed to be great." I had my doubts. I stopped looking for a "great" frozen pizza long ago. When it comes to an iced slice, I like it cheap, fast, and easy, with cheap being the operative word (frozen pies are always fast and easy). So Ed was toting a boxed Margherita pizza from Pelle. "Frozen pizza from Italy?" I asked. "What's the point? And, how... More