I have finished my write-up of Iggies and was fortunate to have owners Lisa Heckman & Peter Wood, “The Heckwoods” as they are known in some circles, allow me in to talk with them before opening on a Saturday afternoon. Parts of that conversation are included in my take on Iggies pizza, the thin crust [...]
As I previously mentioned, the New York Times recently ran a piece about Donatella Arpaia’s upcoming Manhattan Neapolitan pizza joint, Donatella. The article focused on her 5 TON brick oven, which is to be constructed on site, and mentioned that well respected pizzaiolo and teacher, Enzo Coccia, would be building the oven.
Slice let the cat out of [...]
Heya peeps. I visited some pizzerias in Washington DC and wrote a piece about RedRocks Firebrick Pizzeria and Pete’s New Haven Style Apizza (”ah-BEETS”). The article I wrote appeared today on America’s leading pizza weblog, Slice.
Head on over to Slice to check out my ramblings about these two well regarded pizzerias and follow me for [...]
While we are on the opening tip (see Una Pizza Napoletana San Francisco post from yesterday), Slice dropped that Paulie Gee’s will open this Tuesday (3/9/2010) after much anticipation from the many Greenpoint, Brooklyn residents (and indeed on this site) who have been hankering to finally get a taste of the Gee-Man’s pies at 60 Greenpoint [...]
Everyday With Rachael Ray magazine’s March issue will feature a bracketed, March Madness tournament style pizza face-off to determine the best pizza in the country. Sixty-four of the country’s best pizzerias flexed their muscles, rained pepperoni from beyond the arc, slam dunked fresh mootz over the competition and smothered the opposing team’s offense with a competent [...]
Torture.
Pictures like this drive me up a wall. I’ve been in this space….but the picture haunts me none-the-less. The smell of charred crust, the texture of melted mozzarella and the gentle, delicate “snap” as blistered outer crust gives way to a creamy, airy inner crust. The melding of olive oil, mozzarella, salt, basil and crust to form [...]
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