How to Teach Your Kids About Good Pizza

In a recent New Yorker book review of Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation, Macy Halford boils down the book's central tenet: So how do you put the philosophy into practice? First, become fluent in the language of groupthink, and use it to invite your child to examine things critically as a member of a team: "'Can you believe they have the nerve to call this pizza? This doesn't even come close to __________' (fill in the blank with the name of your favorite pizzeria)." I think the Slice family, of which you are all part (awwww, warm...

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 18, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Tagged: books, pizza criticism, The New Yorker

In Which I Find Margherita Pizzas Boring

A Margherita pie from Tutta Bella in Seattle, adequate but ultimately forgettable. [Photograph: Adam Kuban] In Which I Summarize This Post Run-of-the-mill Margherita pies suck. There are great ones, though. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. I now appreciate the addition of well-thought-out and interesting toppings more than ever. In the Nostrana post I put up on Friday, I said I'd give you my thoughts on VPN pizza. As I wrote that, I had so much more I wanted to say about VPN pizzerias but didn't think stuffing it in the Nostrana entry was appropriate. So I started...

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42 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Tagged: pizza criticism, Pizza Madness 2009, pizza Margherita, pizza wankery, VPN, VPN pizzerias