June 23 is National Detroit Style Pizza Day! Like most food holidays, the date is completely arbitrary but the passion behind it is pure. This style has its root at Buddy’s Rendezvous, a Detroit bar that added pizza to the menu in 1946. Back in 2011, then Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and City Council created a …
Yesterday we lost an absolute legend. Andrew Bellucci collapsed in his Astoria pizzeria and died shortly after. He was a real pioneer in the pizza world and a great friend. I first heard of Andrew Bellucci when I was researching the re-opening of Lombardi’s back in 1994. What was once a classic coal-oven pizzeria had …
The Bowery Boys Podcast is a fantastic show about New York City history. The current episode is an update about recent discoveries regarding the early history of pizza in the U.S. Did you think Lombardi’s introduced pizza to America when it opened in 1905? NOPE! The place was already a pizzeria owned by a serious …
I’ve been on a bunch of podcasts but none were quite like the Know Time podcast. Shilaj Lawania, the show’s creator and host, records both video and audio from his tiny apartment. This isn’t a typical shoebox, it’s a shoebox with a magical view you’ll think is a green screen image. His questions are deep …
Staten Island pizza icon Nunzio’s will serve its last slice tomorrow, Friday, August 12, 2022. Owner Robert “Bobby” Whiteaker sold the building and the new owner plans to use it as a cabinet showroom, so no more pizza. We’ve stopped at Nunzio’s on nearly every Sunday Pizza Bus trip to Staten Island and I’m sad …
I’ve been writing a monthly column called “Man on the Street” for Pizza Today Magazine since 2011. Here’s a piece I wrote for the July issue about how New York City is losing its historic coal ovens. Pizza didn’t become completely entwined in NYC culture until after WWII when gas ovens made pizza by-the-slice common. …
Just about every week I’ll get an email asking for my recommendations for where to eat pizza in Naples. Lots of people seem to be visiting pizza’s birthplace lately and I’m delighted to help get people to the best places. There are SO MANY great spots and I certainly haven’t been to all of them, …
History Today, anything north of Houston Street is not considered part of Little Italy. If you stood in front of 290 Elizabeth Street in 1940 you would have been right in the thick of a Sicilian enclave. According to a 2003 historic preservation report, John and Angelina Bivona opened a bakery in that space in …
Hawaiian pizza is without a doubt the most polarizing pizza in history. Whether or not you enjoy eating it, the fact that this bizarre pizza is so pervasive begs our attention. Those who had not heard the story of its alleged invention are more likely to have caught wind of the tale in 2017 when …
New Haven is one of the most important pizza cities in America yet our understanding of its history is limited to a small hand full of surviving pizzerias. Author, historian, and tour guide Colin Caplan has researched the finest details of the Elm City’s pizza scene and will be sharing his findings at a live …
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