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Italy (e.g. Da Michele, Brandi, Port’Alba) | 3 | 9.68% | |
New York Elite (e.g. Di Fara, Lombardi, Joe's, Totonno, Patsy's, Grimaldi) | 0 | 0% | |
New York Street (e.g. Bleecker Street, John's, Original Ray's) | 5 | 16.13% | |
New Haven (e.g. Frank Pepe, Sally's Apizza, Modern Apizza) | 1 | 3.23% | |
U.S. Artisanal (e.g. Kesté, Una Pizza Napoletana, Pizzeria Bianco, Great Lake) | 0 | 0% | |
Chicago Deep Dish (e.g. Lou Malnati's, Gino's East, Pizzeria Uno, Giordano's) | 4 | 12.90% | |
California Style (e.g. Wolf Gang Puck, Chez Panisse, Cheese Board Collective) | 2 | 6.45% | |
Thin/Roman Style (e.g. Pizano's, Maria's, Imo's, Aurelio's, Donatos) | 0 | 0% | |
Thick/Sicilian (e.g. Buddy's, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Sicilia's) | 1 | 3.23% | |
Midwest Commercial (Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa John's, Godfather's) | 4 | 12.90% | |
West Coast Commercial (e.g. Shakey's, Strawhat, Round Table, Mountain Mike's) | 1 | 3.23% | |
Other | 10 | 32.26% | |
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05-05-2012, 09:09 PM | #16 |
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I will vote for Chicago style, though I haven't often been places where its available.
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05-06-2012, 02:14 AM | #17 |
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My mother makes the best pizza
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05-07-2012, 11:30 AM | #18 | |
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I do.
The best pizzas (the "real" ones, like Napolitan use to say) are 22cm in diameter, thin (the slice must not stay straight when kept in hand: a pizza definitely have to folded in four to be eaten with hands), and with the minimum amount of topping necessary to give it flavour. You're eating pizza with a little of something on it, not toppings in tomato sauce with a slice of bread underneath! It needs a 80g of fresh crushed peeled San Marzano tomatoes (no sauce), one or two leaf of basil (picked from the plant just in time), no more than 100g of "mozzarella di Bufala Campana D.O.P." (the less the better), 4g of extra virgin oil (from olives raised on cliffs facing west), and it has to be baked in a wood-fired oven at 485° C for a couple of minutes (you can go at 350°C for 5 minutes, but it's very unhortodox...). And never ever put it in a carton box. Eat paper, instead: they have the same taste and paper is cheaper. ;-) The denomination "Pizza Napoletana" is enforced by the EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/...0R0097:EN:HTML Quote:
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05-07-2012, 01:16 PM | #19 |
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Still another poll that assumes Chicagoans eat only deep dish pizza. We happen to have a plethora of pizza joints serving great thin crust pizza.
I don't have any facts or figures to support this, but I believe that most deep dish pizza in Chicago is ordered by tourists... |
05-07-2012, 01:29 PM | #20 |
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I'm not a big fan of the original "Pizza Napoletana" from Italy. I like a little more on my pizza besides sauce and cheese, and a couple of salty fish on my pizza isn't one of my favorites either. Plus, the center of their pizzas can sometimes be a little, uh, how to say this, moist or soupy. Because of this, it's actually not uncommon for them to eat their pizza with a fork -- and pizza just should not be eaten with a fork. It just shouldn't. Lastly, they would look at you like you were insane if you tried ordering a pepperoni pizza in Italy. I mean, come on, how can you have pizza without pepperoni. Just say'n.
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05-09-2012, 03:35 AM | #23 |
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Domino's. Secret sauce. Crispy thin crust.
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Swedish Pizzerias
When I biked along most of Sweden (Ystad to Lulea) last summer, there was one thing pretty much every town, no matter how tiny, had in common: a local pizzeria. And without fail the pizzas these places would serve were absolutely delicious. I don't keep track or anything, but if I was able to make a top 10 pizza list, I suspect 9 slots would be taken up by Swedish pizzas. The thin crust was perfect. The sauce was perfect. And while unusual at times (thin steak and bearnaise sauce comes to mind) the toppings were top notch as well. I'd recommend a trip to Sweden just to taste the pizzas. |
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Other - Any mom & pop pizzeria place in New Jersey, especially Sciortino's Harbor Lights, now in South Amboy NJ.
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A pizza where the oil makes a path down your arm and drips off your elbow (what are the Europeans thinking, using a knife and fork?). A pizza with consistent quality control, because the mob tells the Italian pizza parlor owners from whom they must buy their cheese and sauce. Ah, north Jersey pizza of a few decades ago, just wonderful. P.S. I didn't vote. E.g., John's in the City seems like it should be representative of east coast pizza, but it doesn't hold a candle to the east coast pizza I grew up with. |
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05-10-2012, 11:05 PM | #27 |
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Papa Del's Pizza, Champaign IL.
Super bready very deep dish. I only went there once, and maybe it I lived nearby it would eventually lose its allure. I'm saying this because someone in the thread said Chicago deep dish is just for tourists. And I was just that. |
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My mom. I think it might have been a Chef Boyardee kit. After Friday night away games with the marching band, my sister and I would get home at 1 o'clock in the morning, and Mom would be waiting up with pizza. We'd sit at the table, chat about the evening, and unwind with a few pieces (it was rectangular) before heading off to bed. That was the best.
The best I like that anyone can experience? DePalma's Italian Cafe. I think they call it Neapolitan. They started in Athens, GA, and have restaurants in Georgia, Alabama, and Seoul. Last edited by Shimarenda; 05-11-2012 at 07:49 PM. |
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