I had higher hopes for this video of the Pizza Plotter when I saw the headline "Print Your Own Pizza" on Hack a Day.
Looks like all it's doing is applying sauce — and way too much sauce at that. Call me when it prints crust, sauce, and cheese and then throws it in the oven. And then you could use the laser pizza cutter to slice it.
This Rémi Gaillard prank would have been cute if the guys who planned it had just stopped at the moment they opened the door for the pizza delivery dude. But what happens afterward and in the second part of the clip is pretty crappy.
This video has been making the rounds the last few days. Apologies if you've seen it already.
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Reaching in to the Slice mailbag, we've got a dispatch that seems to have been sitting in the inbox far too long. But here it is nonetheless. A missive from longtime reader Makanmata.
Adam,
I thought your readers might be interested to know that Dom's well deserved fame has now spread to Brazil.
Walking down the street in Rio de Janeiro last week, my eye was caught by a pizza appearing on a television playing above a juice bar that I happened to be passing by. I quickly realized that it wasn't just any pizza, but a DiFara pie—and a wide shot of people eating pizza amidst green walls confirmed this—and called my wife over in happy disbelief as to just how far Dom's (entirely justified) veneration has travelled.
The video, which is a nice homage to Dom and his work, is available at the Globo website, complete with interviews of Dom and Maggie and breathless commentary about how patrons wait hours in the heat to pay $5 for a slice of pizza.
As a New Yorker living part-time in Rio, I can also report to my fellow Slice readers that there is some good pizza to be found here. Although lacking the super high notes of places like Di Fara or Franny's that we have in Nova Iorque, the quality level of the average pizza here is better than the mediocre—and ever sinking—level of the average slice available in New York, and Neapolitan-style wood-burning ovens are fairly common here in Rio. Of special interest are Pizza al Taglio, which sells authentic Roman-style pizza by the gram in Leblon at Rua Góis, 234, and Capricciosa at Rua Vinícius de Moraes, 134 in Ipanema, which has excellent Neapolitan-style pizzas and where the wait for a table can be as long as at Di Fara.
Via Adam Lindsley on his @thisispizza Twitter stream, where he says, "Wow, that KOIN 6 spot on Apizza Scholls was embarrassing. 'The best pizza in the country has nothing to do with the ingredients.' WTF?"
The very first episode of our new series PEDALING: NYC follows our single-speed host, Chris Jaeckle, and his two fixie friends from Manhattan's Lower East Side into the heart of Brooklyn in search of a mobile pizza oven. Deciding to throw a curve ball at their pal Dave (PizzaMoto), they pick up some unusual pizza fixins at the foodie mecca, Whole Foods Market on Bowery. Watch how their challenge unfolds...
"Now, the company that brought you the Philly Cheesesteak Pizza, the Cali-Chicken-Bacon-Ranch Pizza, and the Oreo Pizza, has a radical new product: pizza that is pizza."
I thought I'd throw this video your way, if only because your site is where I did my homework before our Di Fara trip last week.
If you're thinking, What?!? Another damn Di Fara video, cut it out. This one is, like "Pizza on a Rainy Day," really well done—like how at the 26-second mark it focuses on the clock and the passing of time. Because, really, that's a huge part of the Di Fara thing, for better or for worse.
Norman just emailed me an audio file of a classic intermission promo for pizza from a drive-in theater. (Remember drive-ins? They were fun, weren't they?) Anyway, I did some digging and found a number of these spots on YouTube. An array of drive-in pizza ads appears after the jump. What's kind of amazing is how good some of the pizzas look in these promos. They remind me of some of the pizza you see from these pizza parlors that have been around "since 195x," which isn't surprising, given when these clips were made.
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Adam,
Norman just emailed me an audio file of a classic intermission promo for pizza from a drive-in theater. (Remember drive-ins? They were fun, weren't they?) Anyway, I did some digging and found a number of these spots on YouTube. An array of drive-in pizza ads appears after the jump. What's kind of amazing is how good some of the pizzas look in these promos. They remind me of some of the pizza you see from these pizza parlors that have been around "since 195x," which isn't surprising, given when these clips were made.
