The parent blog Babble visits noted baker and pizzamaker Jim Lahey at Sullivan Street Bakery for a lesson on making a Roman-style pizza pomodoro. He also makes a good-looking zucchini pizza. More

Of course, we all know that the "giant spatula" in this news report and video (above) is a pizza peel. More

OK, I'll admit it: These videos are not the greatest.* But if you were interested in how the U.S. Pizza Team did with its dough-throwing escapades in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday, here ya go. In the one below, scrub ahead to about 1:40:

* If you see better ones out there, lemme know.

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It starts with pizza, then sort of seems to stray from the pizza theme, but wait for it ... around 1:40 it comes back around, full circle, and "we can eat some pizza." More

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Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men, a Jewish American "edutainment" group, sing songs that convey the religious practices and philosophy of Orthodox Judaism. Here, "The Pizza Song" highlights the virtue of being nice, kind, and polite—you'll notice how Uncle Moishy did not have a conniption during any of his slice accidents. Oy vey. More

Over on its Facebook page, Pizza Hut is hyping up an encore of a retired menu item: "Here's some tasty news, Facebook friends: We're dusting off the recipe of a previous product that will return to our restaurants next week. Any guesses? What's your favorite menu item from the past?" More

Oh, boy. This week the Travel Channel will be airing an episode of Food Wars that pits Grimaldi's against John's of Bleecker. Above is a preview video. There are probably some nits to pick, primarily that the host says "San Marzano tomatoes, in Italy it's the only kind of tomato they're allowed to use by law." I hardly doubt that. I'm sure she got the whole certified DOP/VPN stuff confused. But it's TV — they're always starting trouble ;) Looks like it'll be worth a watch. They've got friend of Slice Mark Bello of Pizza a Casa as one... More

You may know the U.S. Pizza Team as one of two* pizza organizations that represent the U.S. in pizza competitions throughout the world, cooking pizzas and tossing dough in the hopes of taking home awards for the Red, White, and Blue. This pizza competition scene has sort of existed on the fringes, though, with exposure coming in spurts every now and then when pizza-tossing gets picked up by blogs and goes viral. Anyway, could the fact that the U.S. Pizza Team will be marching in the 2010 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade mean that the activity is finally breaking into... More