Entries tagged with 'pizza-tossing'
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Australian Researchers Break Down the Physics of Pizza-Tossing
While trying to advance their understanding of tiny motors, researchers at the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory of Monash University cracked the physics behind pizza-tossing. Researcher James Friend tells PhysOrg.com: The dough spins just like the rotor spins because the chef tosses the rotor just like the motor does; the differences between the two are just really in the details. Turns out no one had apparently thought about how to really toss pizza, either, so that became a bigger part of what we looked at with this, and when we found that experts tossed pizza exactly as the theory said they should...In Videos: The Pizza Man in the Visa 'Mambo Italiano' Commercial
In a Q&A in the New York Times today, the paper's advertising columnist answers reader questions. One question: Who is that wonderful pizza man in the Visa commercial? I love the commercial every time I see it.I have to admit that I’m not sure I would want to eat a pizza that has run over his back and down his arm. But oh, I sure like to watch that sexy guy. The short answer: Juan Hermosillo, who works for Pizza Pizza in Ontario. Now you know where he works; maybe you can watch him in person....Marine Park, Brooklyn: Pizzeria Del Corso
"I mean, sure, Colt Seavers could drive the hell out of that truck, but do you think he was actually the one fixing busted axles?" Two Fridays ago. Ed here is like, "Adam, have you heard of this place Pizzeria Del Corso? I saw it mentioned in a story in the Daily News last week about pizza-tossing. The pizza-tossing didn't catch my eye, but the pizzeria did." I guess I had seen that story but had only focused on the Dom DeMarco angle. (Yeah, you know me, right?) And who can blame me? The rest of it was about pizza-tossing....Bay Area Pizzaiolo Seeks Perfect Oven
You: A hot, shapely Italian number that I can place my burning wood in. Me: An eager young pizzaiolo used to playing with fire. I've played around most of my life; now looking to settle down with the right oven. In the San Francisco Bay Area, champion pizza-maker Tony Gemignani hopes to open a wood-burning pizzeria with an oven worthy of his talent, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Gemignani, long known in the pizza world for his pizza-spinning techniques (he's been called "the Michael Jordan of pizza-tossing"), got tired of dough acrobatics a couple years ago...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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