I love pizza, especially New York-style pizza, the kind with the large thin crust. I also like that it's sometimes sold in wide slices to go.
Pizza is one of my favorite foods! I love New York style, but I love Chicago deep dish as well. Do you get yours with pepperoni?
I'm vegetarian so I tend to stick to the traditional toppings of tomato sauce and mozzarella.
Gotcha. I normally just have cheese pizza, but sometimes I'll get pineapple or bacon on it. How often to you get pizza?
About once a week. Incredible that a style of food which originated in New York City in the early 1900s is so popular today!
I wonder if pizza was as popular in the 1900s as it is now. Do you think they had as many types of pizza as we do now?
from Naples, he opened a grocery store in 1897; eight years later, it was licensed to sell pizza by New York State. An employee, Antonio Totonno Pero, began making pizza, which sold for five cents a pie. Many people, however, could not afford a whole pie and instead would offer what they could in return for a corresponding sized slice, which was wrapped in paper tied with string. In 1924, Totonno left Lombardi's to open his own pizzeria on Coney Island, called Totonno's.
cheese; St. Louis and other Midwest pizzas use thin crusts and rectangular slices in its local pizzas. Detroit-style pizza is a square pizza that has a thick deep-dish crisp crust, and is generally served with the sauce on top of the cheese. The square shape is the result of an early tradition of using metal trays originally meant to hold small parts in factories. The jumbo slice is an oversized New York-style pizza sold by the slice to go, especially in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington,