Entries tagged with 'pizza history'
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Flo Consiglio of Sally's Apizza, a Keeper of the Flame
Flo Consiglio adds up the receipts by hand in a back booth at Sally's Apizza in New Haven, Connecticut. [Photograph: Adam Kuban] I thought I had lost this photo of Sally's Apizza matriarch Flo Consiglio in a hard-drive crash. But I was able to recover some files from my camera's memory card today. Flo is a real character, as I found out during a recent visit to Sally's. But more than that, she's what our man Ed Levine calls a "Keeper of the Flame," a direct link to some of our country's fading food heritage. Here, after the jump, I...Who Invented Deep-Dish Pizza? The World May Never Know
The Chicago Tribune carried a story yesterday about the quest to officially document who invented deep-dish pizza. Like many a culinary origin story, this one remains shrouded in mystery. The only paper trail indicates the pizza almost certainly came out of a 19th Century mansion built with lumber money at 29 E. Ohio St.—the restaurant now known as Pizzeria Uno. But the question of who exactly developed the concept remains a mystery despite the best efforts of the City of Chicago's official cultural historian. But after proving that deep-dish came from the original Pizzeria Uno location, the question is who...Dear Slice: Boston May Have Had the First Pizza in the U.S.
Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got ... GenealogyBank.com (a subscription service) has been adding the Boston Journal. I went through it and found the following long, interesting article [subscription required] on pizza, from 1903. This is two years before Lombardi's establishment opened on Spring Street in New York City, the so-called first pizzeria in America.A similar, 1905 article from the New York Sun about pizza on Spring Street is on the Library of Congress website, FYI. Both articles spell it pizze. —Barry Popik P. S.: I just added a post on Pizza Margherita....In Videos: Sam's Restaurant Featured in Brooklyn Documentary
Clicking into the Slice mailbag, we've got this nice note, with a great link, from M. W. —The Mgmt. I’ve been enjoying (and commenting upon) the recent Sam’s post, and thought you might in turn like to see this video. It profiles a few Carroll Gardens establishments, talking with the proprietors, etc. There’s a lot of time devoted to Sam’s, mostly an interview with Louie Migliaccio [the waiter/server/busser/bartender there], but a bit with his father, Mario, who talks about making pizza. There’s also the owner of D'Amico's Coffee. It’s not all pizza- or food-related, but I think the majority is....It's Not Pizza Napoletana if You Don't Follow the Rules
Photograph from stu_spivack on Flickr Pizza Margherita will now be recognized as a "regional specialty" in Naples by the European Union under its official name, the Pizza Napoletana. This means anyone claiming to sell a Pizza Napoletana must now adhere to the rules of what constitutes a Pizza Napoletana, as conceived by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana (the True Neapolitan Pizza Association): The diameter must be no more than 35 cm (14 inches) in diameter and no thicker than 1/3 of a centimeter at its center The tomato base must be made from the San Marzano variety of tomatoes...Pizza Hut Turns 50
The original Pizza Hut, in Wichita, Kansas. Photograph from Spynotebook on Flickr Fifty years under the regime of Pizza the Hut. It's too much. What they've done to the reputation of pizza worldwide is a disgrace. We need regime change....Is Patsy's (East Harlem) Worth the Trip?
Hope you're thoroughly glutted on leftover turkey sandwiches at the moment. Quick question, I was thinking of finally hitting Patsy's this weekend and was wondering if it's worth the trip to the original up in Harlem? I thought all the Patsy's were owned by the same people but I noticed the original isn't listed on their website. So really who else can I turn to with such a pizza conundrum? —Bret S....Students of Pizza: Bookmark These Links Now
Last week, the New York Times did away with its Times Select pricing scheme and at the same time opened up its archives from 1987 to present, bringing them out from behind its "paywall." That means that several seminal moments of pizza journalism are once again available to all you homeslices. Although they deal primarily with New York–based pizzerias, anyone who loves pizza will pick up some historical context in which to place one of America's favorite foods. These bits of required pizza reading follow after the jump....Photo of the Day: The First Pizza Hut
1st Pizza Hut, blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of spynotebook We normally don't rhapsodize about the Hut here on Slice, but this is kinda cool. It's the first Pizza Hut. In Wichita, Kansas. Yes, Kansas. What's the matter with Kansas, indeed. Before I get any angry emails from Kansans, lemme disclose that I was raised there. Therefore I can poke fun at the Sunflower State. —Ed....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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