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Adam - fascinating stuff! I grew up in Trenton where pizza and tomato pie were synonymous terms. I didn't realize it was confined to such a small city. In addition to DeLorenzo's, we also liked Mike's on Olden Avenue, Maruca's in the burg, and Freddie's in W. Trenton. They were all awesome pizzas and now I realize why I never get one that tastes as great.

I was surprised you didn't mention Philadelphia tomato pies, which would be similar to the thick crust of a sicilian square pie, with a very thin coat of tomato sauce and a sprinkle of romano cheese - period. The sauce is very dark and not wet at all because it is such a thin coat and cooked a long time with no mozzarella on top. Served in large squares. There are no other toppings and it is served cold. This is what I'm told is authentic "tomato pie". Philadelphia also has pizza, which is quite like what is made in Trenton and known as pizza most everywhere. Just not quite as good. Sorry, Philly.

I am a HUGE HUGE fan of Sunflower Seed butter with bananas and unfiltered wildflower honey on whole wheat. The sunflower butter is amazingly good and balanced with the sweetness of the honey.

also PB&Co's Dark Chocolate Dreams and SEEDED raspberry jam...drool drool

Peanut Butter & Co. The Heat Is On with Rasberry jam. Hot!

Our $842 prix fixe menu includes the following:

The amuse bouche is three wild-sourced Sri Lankan crickets caramelised in sugar extracted from cane from the field in which they (the crickets) were harvested. The hand-thrown pale blue plate evokes the sky at dawn, which is when crickets are caught, and are produced exclusively by various support groups that our discretion forbids us from identifying.
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One plate for a table of four, I assume.

Uh, WOW Karyn, wow! I'm so impressed and I love that you did not fail to leave the matcha trend out of there. You included just about everything!

Hillary
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when I was in high school we used make (shhh don't tell the foodies!) peanut butter & dorito sandwiches!
....somehow this seems gross now that I'm in my 30's.

JerzeeTomato: Macadamia nut and almond butter is one product? OMG, I have to have it!

Normal old JIF or Skippy peanut butter with raspberry or apricot jam, on multigrain bread! And a diet coke is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!

once again valencia peanut butter or almond butter with little scarlet jam

and pretty much all the sandwiches at peanutbutter &co

Hazelnut butter and blueberry jam on a thick whole wheat bread. MMmmmm. I did Ina Garten's PB&J bars using this combination (hazelnuts and blueberries). They were incredible and well received.

I love fresh peanut butter as sold in health food stores and some better supermarkets. When it's done that way, it doesn't matter that the butter is made from the lowly peanut. Just getting fresh PB lifts it to a higher level.

Ha, ha! Beautiful.

I forgot to mention that we have servers-upon-demand that will remain behind your seat to cut your food for you, and at times they are willing to chew it for you too.

We do not use nuns as workers at any point in our process, though. We have found that ex-lawyers or ex-successful MBA types work better and for less money. When we run low on candidates for employees sometimes we clone them along with whatever other cloning is on the list to do that day but usually they seem to keep walking through the door willing to work for next-to-nothing which fits our corporate policy well.

Almond Butter with Raspberry-Chipotle Sauce (weird, I know) on lightly toasted, buttered whole wheat bread.