After being mentioned in just about every other paper in and around the city, Slice finally got some play in the Old Gray Lady itself (or should that be herself?). Joe Sharkey writes in his "Memo Pad" column: HOLD THE ANCHOVIES Business travelers are familiar with Zagat restaurant guides, but pizza parlors usually do not show up in them. Now there is good news for discerning peripatetic pizza lovers: a blog dedicated to pizza, www.sliceny.com. The site, published by Adam Kuban, is New York-oriented, but it also contains reviews from readers in many other cities and foreign locales, including...
In a story headlined "The unkindest slice of all," the New York Daily News reports on the reasons behind Lento's closing: declining business and what seems to be a family dispute. [Linda] Cahill's grandfather, Eugene Lento, turned the space into a pizzeria 73 years ago after the speakeasy he ran began losing dough at the end of Prohibition.Upon his retirement, Lento handed the business to sons-in-law Anthony Tortora and Herbert Connors, and in 1988 Cahill and three others took over.Lento's daughter, Mary Lento, inherited the building at 7003 Third Ave. when Lento died in 2002."My grandfather reassured us there...
Slice was mentioned in the Sunday newspaper insert USA Weekend (January 06–08), along with some other familiar names in foodblogging (The Food Section, The Accidental Hedonist, Chocolate and Zucchini, Too Many Chefs, Obsession with Food, and Orangette). It doesn't seem to be available online, so I scanned it for your reading pleasure (above). Greetings to new readers via the USA Weekend section, and many thanks to longtime readers. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.......
Slice and its sister site, A Hamburger Today, are featured in today's Los Angeles Times. From a story called Have we gone blog wild?: WHEN food blogging was new (about 15 minutes ago), it was fun to pore over the gastronomic musings at the Accidental Hedonist or I Was Just Really Very Hungry. In those days, reading about what someone ate for dinner or which food magazine they liked best was kind of amusing. But quicker than you could say blogosphere, the world of blogs-by-dedicated-foodies got crowded, repetitive, overly precious and just plain dull. These days, hyper-focus is in; generalism...
What do Slice and infamous shock jock Howard Stern (left) have in common? We're both coming soon to Sirius Satellite Radio. Unlike Mr. Stern's impending move to the spacewaves, however, our time on air will be fleeting. Slice (and by Slice, I mean me) will be on the recently launched Martha Stewart Living Radio channel talking about foodblogs for a five-minute stretch. I have no idea what they're going to ask, but I'll be typing up a talking points memo tonight. If you subscribe to Sirius, you can listen either on Channel 112 or online. For those of you who...
A SLICE WITH LIFE A slice with LIFE? Make Make that five slices with LIFE. The magazine, reincarnated in 2004 as a weekend newspaper insert, asked me to serve on a panel of five judges in its "Battle of the Boroughs" pizza contest. Five slices, five boroughs, five pizzerias, five judges: Let the conspiracy theorists go wild. To find the best of each borough, the magazine tallied votes on its website a few weeks ago. Reppin' their respective regions were: DeMarco's (Manhattan), Joe & Pat's (Staten Island), L&B Spumoni Gardens (Brooklyn), Louie & Ernie's (The Bronx), and Singas Famous (Queens)....
Slice turns 2 today, and what nicer way to start our second year than with a birthday present of sorts from the Village Voice. We were named Best Hunger-Inducing Website in the weekly's annual Best of New York section. Aw, shucks. While I humbly confess there are people in New York who know more about pizza than I do, I'm just happy the Voice saw fit to give us some props. Thanks, Voice!...
Not to be outdone by the Post, the New York Daily News has two items on pizza today. The first is about Brooklyn-style-pizzeria owner Todd Duvio's effort to rebuild his New Orleans restaurant and his blog detailing it. Slice had this story last week, but it's good to see Mr. Duvio getting some wider press. We're hopeful that Brooklyn memorabilia will start moving his way. The second item mentions Slice: Mutz to you If you've still got pizza on your mind, it's time for a visit to the city's own pizza blog, Slice (sliceny.com). Its slogan: "Crusty, Saucy, Cheesy." Although...
If you live in New York City, subscribe to Time-Warner Cable, and have a high tolerance for hot air, you can tune to NY1 between 6 and 7 p.m. tonight or tomorrow to catch this site's editor & publisher on the air. NY1, for those non–New Yorkers reading this, is like a CNN for the Big Apple. The all–New York-all-the-time channel will air a segment on Google Maps mash-ups in which I appear blabbing about how neat the tool is. Slice, of course, uses the function in our recently released Slice Pizza Map, which plots all the pizzerias that...
Almost a year ago, this site's editor and publisher, Adam K. (that's me), was called upon to serve as a judge in the annual Best of Long Island Pizza Contest. Contest organizers told me that the judges would be sampling 25 slices of pizza—five pizzerias competing in five categories. They told me that the Food Network would be there, taping for the show All American Festivals. They also told me not to eat breakfast. This site's roving reporter, E-Rock, joined me on the journey to Farmingdale (that's who I'm consulting with in the screen capture at right), and our...
