Entries tagged with 'pizza awesomeness'
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An Epic Quest For Pizza Immortality: Eating Nothing But Sausage Pizza for a Month
Going strong on Day 4. The place: An unknown office in the Chicago area The date: Late September 2009 The event: The birth of an American Hero How many among us have made the claim that we could eat nothing but pizza for the rest of our lives? I certainly have on more than one occasion, and the typical responses range from silence to mild amusement. Occasionally, someone calls me out, which leads to immediate backtracking on my part. Nobody, I reason, could actually eat nothing but pizza. No human being, I think to myself, could possibly be that...Peking Duck Pizza at Costco (in Taiwan)
[Photograph: My Inner Fatty] From the blog My Inner Fatty comes this account of Peking duck pizza, available at Costco of Taiwan: it looks just like a regular pizza, except... it's covered in Peking duck! Instead of tomato sauce, try 甜麵醬 (er, I don't know how to translate that, it's the sauce you put into those thin pancakes when you have Peking duck). Then to replace normal onions, you have scallions. To be fair, the pizza wasn't amazing, the crust was kind of soggy ... it was overly doughy, and lacked the char on the bottom. Whatever, you find...Video: VendrTV Visits the Veraci Mobile Pizza Oven in Seattle's Pike Place Market
This week, Daniel Delaney of VendrTV visits the Veraci Pizza mobile wood-oven at Seattle's Pike Place Market. If you don't live in Seattle, you might remember Veraci from the post we did about it on Slice last June. Veraci got its start operating a small arsenal of mobile pizza ovens at farmers' markets in the Northwest (various locations in Seattle and Bend, Oregon). Two things about this are neat—the mobile oven inherently, and the fact that the pizzamakers attached to the ovens could take advantage of market-fresh produce and toppings. Anyway, 'nuff blabbin'. Watch the video, after the jump....Pizza Peels Inspire New Type of Robot 'Hand'
I somehow missed this awesome pizza-related robotics news last week, but it looks like the Japanese have taken inspiration from pizza-makers and the way they control their pizza peels in designing a new type of robot "hand": "An Italian chef dextrously manipulates a pizza in an oven using a tool called a pizza peel," says Makoto Kaneko, the team's leader at Osaka University. A pizza peel consists of little more than a flat blade attached to the end of a long pole, but it gives the chef a surprising degree of control over the pizza. Kaneko's team has designed...People in Pizza Costumes Becoming Pizzas
The site People in Pizza Costumes Becoming Pizzas cleverly clones single "slices" of pizza-costumed people into whole "pies." In addition to the cute little baby slice above, there are five other pizzas on the site....Upstart Wood-Fired Pizzeria in Nothing, Arizona
Photograph from cobalt123 on Flickr The town of Nothing, Arizona, sounds like something straight out of Duel, Breakdown, or any number of psycho-stalker-trucker movies. A town in name only, it's basically a shell of a gas station in rural northwestern Arizona surrounded by swaths of federally owned land. There's no reason to go there—especially now that the former owner sold it and ripped out the gas tanks. But its new owner, Mike Jensen, hopes to make it a destination in part through wood-fired pizza: A good chunk of Jensen's plan hinges on his pizza. For the past four years,...Cheryl, the Pizza Dance Party
Thursday night I had the pleasure of attending the pizza-themed Cheryl dance party mentioned early last week on Slice. The Royale in Park Slope was decked out in pizza-parlor regalia with red-and-white checked tablecloths, construction-paper pizza slices, and paper plates on the wall. There was no shortage of fantastic homemade pizza-themed costumes. Attendees came dressed as various toppings: pepperoni, olives, peppers, tomatoes, broccoli. There was even someone dressed as salmon. And one guest came dressed as Kristy Lynn Hammonds, one of the recently fired Domino's miscreants of YouTube fame. The evening's most popular snack accessories were edible pizza necklaces, thoughtfully...An Evening with Paulie Gee, Pizza Madman
Clockwise from top left: Proofing pans hold dough balls; Paulie Gee, pizza madman; the most popular pie of the night, the Margherita with Sopressata Picante and Parmigiano-Reggiano; Paulie places a pie in the oven; the Bianco with Chopped Fresh Garlic, Pecorino Romano, and Fresh Basil comes steaming from the oven. Regular readers will recognize the name Paulie Gee from his many comments here on Slice and from his extensive collection of pizza photos on Flickr. Paulie is the consummate pizza lover—he eats it, lives it, breathes it, and, this past Saturday, he made it. For me! And for his...Sudoku Pizza
I won't pretend to understand sudoku. There's too many grids, columns, rows, and numbers to deal with. The point is to fill each of nine grids with the numbers 1 through 9 such that each column and row is filled with 1 through 9 with no repeats. See, confusing, right? But reduce it to pizza toppings, and now you're speaking my language. The Sudoku Pizza, created by Colordoku, replaces numerals with olives, basil, potato, onion, garlic, Italian salami, zucchini, sausage, and spinach. All arranged in a sudoku pattern. [via Neatorama via Gordon]...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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