Entries tagged with 'pizza delivery'
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World Record Pizza Delivery Attempt
Australian television comedian Paul Fenech left Madrid this morning on his 20,000km journey to set an unbeatable Guinness World Record for longest delivery and raise money to fight child cancer. He will fly via Johannesburg and Sydney before delivering the pizza to the Wellington home of cancer sufferer Niko Apostolakis, 13, at 10am on Saturday. World record pizza delivery to arrive in NZ [Stuff.co.nz]...Pie Rollers: The Big Green Pizza Truck
Photograph from BigGreenPizzaTruck.com This pizza wagon one-ups any pizza truck on the streets of Manhattan. And then some: Several years ago Douglas Coffin, a caterer in New Haven, built a portable bread oven that he planned to use at big events. When that did not work out (not cost-effective) he decided to put a wood-fired oven aboard a truck, drive to company picnics and birthday parties and make thin-crust pizzas for his clients. The Big Green Pizza Truck First the Pizza's Delivered. Then It's Cooked [New York Times]...Link Roundup: Pizza, From Birth to Death
"Taylor Street, the late 1890s. The neighborhood of Italian immigrants, largely from Naples, is packed with handcarts and makeshift stands selling fruit, vegetables, olive oil and bread. Speaking mostly in Italian, they buy, sell, argue and barter, when suddenly a man walks onto the street pushing a cart holding two copper washtubs. Their bottoms are packed with charcoal, keeping round pies of bread, tomato, spices and cheese hot. Walking near Taylor and Racine, he sells these pies for two cents each, and the people seem to like them. Little does he know that he is America's first pizza vendor, and...Pizza Delivery Violates Ex-C.O.'s Restraining Order
A former New Hampshire corrections officer, just hours after being indicted on charges of raping inmates he was in charge of guarding, violates his parole by delivering pizza to a prison: "Pretty stupid, huh?" said [bail enforcement agent Lance] Wilkinson. "I told him, 'If Jesus Christ told me to deliver those pizzas, I would have said no.' " Pizza proves indicted guard's downfall [New Hampshire Union Leader]...Pizza Flyer Design Considered
Because we work closely with them in our day jobs, the staff of Slice loves graphic designers, art directors, and the rest of their ilk. But sometimes, guys and gals, you just overanalyze everything. (And could you be any more anal about the way your text rags!?) Anyway, a design prof turns his attention to pizza-flyer design on design blog Speak Up: So why are pizza flyers so good, yet so bad? One student repeated a familiar argument: the reason pizza flyers look so bad is because they are put together by people who think that they are designers simply...In Alaska, It's Pizza by Plane
Beaver From Flickr member Mr Lunatic Fringe. From InsideBayArea.com: HARD to believe, but Nome has just gotten its first pizza delivery business, a joint that brings gourmet pies to people's doors and even flies special orders to Bush villages hundreds of miles away. For free. It may not arrive hot, but it's all the rage in this Northwest Alaska region where Nome, with its 3,500 residents, had no food delivery options until Airport Pizza launched. You buy and they fly in Alaska [InsideBayArea.com, via Tien Mao]...Deliver Us the Evildoers
What started with a car theft turned into an escape and resulting chase that ended with the male fugitive being caught hiding out in a woman's restroom by an officer who received a ride from a pizza deliveryman. Chase involving pizza deliveryman ends in ladies' room [7online.com]...Pizza Delivery Wars
If you've ever wondered who's the top dog in the pizza delivery business, Lebanon, Indiana, food writer Scott Hutcheson puts the major chains to the test. In Pizza Delivery Wars, he puts Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's head to head. Now that we're in the thick of football season, this information will probably come in handy for all you Sunday afternoon armchair quarterbacks. Pizza Delivery Wars [scotthutcheson.typepad.com]...Pizza Perv Skeeves Out Our Spidey Sense
Pizza can bring great joy, as evidenced by the poems in our Pizza Haiku Contest. But there is also a dark side to pizza—muggings and murders of delivery drivers, pizzerias as fronts for drug operations, etc. And now, in New York City, it seems like cops are looking at a pizza deliveryman as a suspect in the "Spider Man Rapist" case. The heinous perp in these assaults has been climbing down fire escapes into open windows, assualting women, and then using some sort of wire system to lower himself down to the ground. The deliveryman cops are investigating, Eugenio Aguilar,...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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