Watch This Crazy Homemade Spot for Frank Ciampa's Same Old Place Pizzeria

I love the lightning bolt effect, the ass crack, and the multiple-screen effect. This would make me want to Frank Ciampa's Same Old Place if I lived in Boston's Jamaica Plain. [via @dry_hump via Stellar via ★kathrynyu]

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4 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 17, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Boston, Frank Ciampa's Same Old Place, Jamaica Plain MA, Massachussetts, pizza raps, pizza weirdness, videos

Video: Ask Paulie, The Fourth

For the past three weeks, the owner of Paulie Gee's in Greenpoint has answered your questions on everything from his pizza heroes to his knack for the artful schmooze. Today's episode features Paulie waxing poetic about his early food memories, why he craves ginger ale with pasta, and some more motivation for all those future pizza restauranteurs out there.

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15 Comments | Posted by Jessica Leibowitz, November 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM
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Video: Big Cats Want Pizza! (Boxes)

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4 Comments | Posted by Meredith Smith, November 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM
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Ask Paulie, Week 3

Welcome to week three of our 'Ask Paulie' series! Yup, Paulie's selected a few more Slicer questions to answer for this week. Today the Greenpoint pizza joint owner discusses his secret dough recipe, a final pizza hero, and a glorious Ferrari-style oven upgrade.

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11 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, November 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Tagged: Ask Paulie, Paulie Gee, Paulie Gee's, videos

Video: Conan Kinda Learns to Make Pizza at Joe's

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2 Comments | Posted by Meredith Smith, November 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Tagged: Conan O'Brien, Joe's, TV, videos

Video: Pizza on History Channel's 'Food Tech'

Follow the History Channel's Food Tech host Bobby Bognar in the "Pizza" episode as he deconstructs the components that go into making pies. From a glimpse into commercial dough making at the Domino's factory, a visit to a California dessert basil farm that uses geothermal wells to maintain a happy growing temp, a look at making mozzarella at the Nabisco plant in South Dakota, visiting a third generation family salumeria in St. Louis, learning the ins and out of mushroom farming in Pennsylvania, making olives edible at a plant in California, and getting a behind-the-scenes lesson on oven manufacturing at Marsal in Long Island, the episode covers a lot of ground about what goes into making some of the best stuff on earth.

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2 Comments | Posted by Meredith Smith, November 4, 2011 at 3:30 PM
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The Pizza Toss and Uncut Party Pizza in 'Breaking Bad' (aka Venezia's Pizza)

Carey Jones posted a Daily Slice yesterday from Saggios in Albuquerque. Which prompted some discussion in the comments about the famous pizza-tossing scene in Breaking Bad.* I'm happy the discussion went there, because it now gives me an excuse to post these videos.

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18 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 2, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Breaking Bad, pizza awesomeness, TV, videos

Video: Ask Paulie, Week 2

It's week two of our 'Ask Paulie' series and Paulie has answers to some more questions we solicited from you a few weeks back. This week the proprietor and chef of Paulie Gee's Greenpoint pizza joint talks about his pizza heroes.

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38 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, November 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM
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Video: Ask Paulie Gee, Week 1

A few weeks back we asked you folks to send in your questions for Paulie Gee, proprieter and chef at Paulie Gee's Greenpoint pizza joint. The former IT-professional turned pizzaiolo is an inspirational story if we've ever heard one, and we're truly grateful that he's taken the time out to answer a few of our questions. Check out the first in our three part series in which Paulie talks about following your dreams, changing lightbulbs, and managing baking while schmoozing.

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19 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, October 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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Video: Imagine There's No Pizza

If you haven't seen this, Herman Cain, then Godfather Pizza Prez, gives a soulful performance not to be missed!

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12 Comments | Posted by Meredith Smith, October 18, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Tagged: Herman Cain, pizza songs, videos