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The Most Influential Pizzas in America
Any pizza list is likely to generate some controversy, but it's good that pizza generates such passion.The writers at First We Feast deviated from the "Best Pizza" type of analysis toward an attempt to...
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Review: Wolfgang Puck Express Pizza
Heading home Indianapolis late one morning, I was intrigued by the Wolfgang Puck Express located right in my airport terminal. Of course, the cylindrical white-tiled open-flame oven caught my eye as...
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Review: It's Nutts - Trenton Style Tomato Pie
I enjoy all styles of pizza, but Trenton tomato pie (read my primer HERE) is my favorite. Among pizzerias that offer a real Trenton pie, DeLorenzo's is the Holy Grail. But even after they relocated...
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Review: Tommy's Pizza, Bronx (Throggs Neck) NY
Update, October 2015:Tommy Lobue was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Throggs Neck Merchants Association.http://www.throggsneckmerchants.com, October 2015: Award presented to Tommy...
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Review: Trader Joe's Pizza Dough - Garlic & Herb
Trader Joe's is a great store for many reasons, but primarily for the gourmet offerings at discount pricing. Click on any image to enlargeI've heard good reports about their ready-to-bake pizza dough,...
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Review: Louisa's Pizza & Pasta - Crestwood (Chicago) IL
Growing up in New Jersey, I developed a natural affinity for pizza with a thin, crisp, and sturdy crust. Sometimes, a puffy thick-crusted Sicilian pie would be a nice variation. Years later, I had my...
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Review: Kate & Al's Pizza Pies - Columbus Farmers Market Pizza, Part One
In the parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, there remain some large shopping complexes that are - more or less - the precursor to malls. They are an old-fashioned concept, combining...
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Review: Pete's Pizza - Columbus Farmers Market Pizza, Part Two
The Columbus Farmer's Market, just a little bit south of Trenton, is a dinosaur; an old style hybrid of junk shops, flea market, and farm market. On a sunny Saturday in November, I targeted Kate &...
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Refiew: Capofitto - Philadelphia PA
For a long time, Philadelphia had only one notable pizza place - the legendary Tacconelli's in the Port Richmond section. Philly was all about the cheesesteak and the pretzels.Click on any image for...
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Review: Gino's East Frozen Deep Dish Pizza
After resisting the lure of Chicago-style deep dish pizza for many years, I had a change of heart after eating deep dish from Louisa's, 10 miles south of Chicago's Midway Airport in Crestwood (full...
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Review: MOD Pizza
I have good news and bad news regarding your pizza future.The good news is that you will get an ever-expanding range of pizza shop options, offering good to great pies. You should have to depend much...
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Review: NY Pizza Suprema, Manhattan
In my experience, Manhattan is a place of dining extremes. I've had some of my best meals there, and some of the most dreary. Some astounding bargains, and some terrible ripoffs (especially in the...
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Review: Don Antonio, Manhattan
New York City - all five boroughs - is filled with wonderful pizza joints. In Manhattan, however, many of the best are clustered in Greenwich Village at the southern tip of the island. However, during...
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The 15 Breakout Pizzas of 2015
As the pizza renaissance rolls on, I find myself with the happy problem of too many great new pizza experiences to contain in a list of just fifteen. This year's top pizza joints offered pie in all...
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115 Pizzas Worth the Calories
About a year ago, we published the list of 100 Pizzas Worth the Calories. During 2015, we discovered several more that helped grow the list to 115, including three places (Picco, Via 313, and North of...
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Review: Holy Tomato Pies, Blackwood NJ
What is a tomato pie? I grew up in Southern New Jersey, and my family used the term as a synonym for pizza. But it has a very specific meaning in Trenton, NJ, where tomato pie is similar to pizza, but...
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Review: Brooklyn Bred Pizza Crust
On a recent trip to BJ's Wholesale Club (a membership-based warehouse store like Costco), I purchased a twin-pack of "Brooklyn Bred" rectangular pizza crusts for $3.99. These are the product of...
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Review: Jerk Oceano (Pizzeria Oceano), Lantana FL
Until July of 2015, the best pizzeria you never heard of was operating from a beach-style shack in overlooked Lantana, Florida. There in the shadow of glitzy neighbor towns like Palm Beach and Delray...
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Review: Grande Pizza Co., Boca Raton FL
What is Detroit style pizza? It's a rectangular pie, baked in a pan, with a thick but usually airy crust. It has a lot in common with a Sicilian style pizza and the Old Forge pies in Northeastern...
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Review: Collegeville Italian Bakery Pizzeria Napoletana, Collegeville PA
Let's make it official: 2016 is the year when the world (beyond Michigan and pizza insiders) discovers Detroit style pie. At first glance, a Detroit pie looks like a Sicilian style rectangle pie with...
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