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passion4pizza

Pizza fans and webhosts of passion-4-pizza.com

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  • Location: Hudson Valley, NY
  • Favorite foods: Pizza
  • Last bite on earth: Probably Totonno's, or Umberto's grandma pizza

Troubling Pizza Trends in NYC

A possible solution for overcoming bad pizza:
Learn to make pizza and start a pizza business dedicated to quality and deliciousness.

Of course, it's easier if you get out of NYC...

Troubling Pizza Trends in NYC

A possible solution for overcoming bad pizza:
Learn to make pizza and start a pizza business dedicated to quality and deliciousness.

Of course, it's easier if you get out of NYC...

Los Alamos, CA: We Try Every Pizza at Full of Life Flatbread

We were there a couple of years ago... added some fuel to the debate (http://www.passion-4-pizza.com/full-of-life-flatbread.html) and really enjoyed it. We never figured out if it was pizza or not either!

New York Quintessentials: 12 Classic Pizza Joints You Should Know

Nothing wrong with your list, Niki - except for the omission of the single best remaining slice joint in the City of New York: New Park Pizza in Howard Beach. You coulda gone to 13; no one would have minded.

Nothing To Fear: Totonno's Is Still Using Their Original Coal Oven

@jimmyjo, your cereal boxes must be sublime.

Poll: Nuts on Pizza, Way or No Way?

@darklighter: the Rosa is the bomb! We make a version of it too, and a pear, gorgonzola, arugala and walnut pizza (I know, it's really a salad...)

Poll: Nuts on Pizza, Way or No Way?

@darklighter: the Rosa is the bomb! We make a version of it too, and a pear, gorgonzola, arugala and walnut pizza (I know, it's really a salad...)

My Best Slice, March

@PaulieGee - New Park well done is the best slice in ANY MONTH! I'm glad we moved up here to Ulster County, but damn, that looks good...

Pizza Hut Debuts 'Crazy Cheesy Crust'

Is it okay to post a comment to say "no comment"? This item is getting WAY too much press.

Totonno's is Officially Back in Business!

This is our favorite pizza on Earth. Thank God, indeed.

Letters to Totonno's: Pete Wells, Allison Robicelli, Cookie Cimineri, and Others on America's Church of Pizza

Like Paulie, Totonno's turned the light on for us too, in terms of what pizza could be. I went to high school within walking distance (on a nice day) and never knew Totonno's was there. Discovering it as an adult who thought he knew good pizza - what a revelation. That this was just about the beginning blows us both away. Lillian never liked char before this! It's true: only God makes better pizza. We can't wait to get back down to Brooklyn - it'll be a great day of Totonno's and Paulie Gee's!

Poll: Is it Pizza?

If we begin with the Peter Reinhart definition of pizza: "a flat bread with stuff on it," we have a wider range (which allows me to include dessert pizza when I ordinarily would not. Pizza-flavored things are not pizza.

By the way, has anyone else noticed the proliferation of things now referred to as "Tuscan" with exactly the same flavorings that used to be called "pizza-flavored"?

Pizza Obsessives: Niki 'Lady Slice' Achitoff-Gray

Welcome, Niki! And thanks to Meredith for an excellent job during her editorial administration.

This Week in Pizza

I've gotta concur with imwalkin - except I haven't read the Times Book Review in years...

This Week in Pizza

Lots of great stuff here this week! Thanks, Adam, for the link - it's kinda weird, since our blog post is a few months old, but the fornomobile.com site will be up and running within a week, our facebook page (www.facebook.com/fornomobile) is active, and we're putting our event calendar together for 2013... You gonna make it up to the Hudson Valley this Spring?

Paulie Gee to Open a Baltimore Location with 'Pizzablogger'

This is great! Mazel tov to both of you! ROAD TRIP!!

Restoring Our Church of Pizza: The Rebuilding and Repairing of Totonno's After Hurricane Sandy

Lil and I love Totonno's. Like Paulie, Totonno's turned our heads around regarding pizza; what it is and what it can be. And Coney Island? I went to Lincoln - Coney is part of my heart.

How can we help?

Pizza Hut Perfume Is Real

We already smell like "fresh dough with a hint of spice"! And a hell of a lot better than Pizza Hut!

Photo of the Day: Pizza Without Power at Motorino

Lil first taught me to make dough with a well like that... only about 1/20th as big! It's beautiful...

Daily Slice: The Frankford Taco at Pizza Brain, Philadelphia

WANT! (note: this is Cary. Lillian wouldn't want this...)

Farm to Factory Tour of Bianco DiNapoli Tomatoes

I still have one can from 2010... We want to open it, we talk about opening it; we just can't bring ourselves to do it. Waiting for those special guests, I guess...

Pizza Is...

got a few comments, actually: first, I love it. especially rhyming Stefano Ferarra and great marinara!
Second - UPN, VPN, DOC could also go well with "the mouse ran up the clock", but that's just how I thought the limerick meter scanned.
And third - no one looks more like a beat poet than you, Adam - except maybe me!

A Pizza My Mind: The Game Changer

Totonno's, for Lil and me. Not our first coal-fired pizza but it really changed pizza for us - especially discovering, in my fifties, that this pizzeria I'd never been to was walking distance from my high school! Okay, a long walk on a nice day, but whatever...

'Many of Us Would Love to See a Pic of Baby Slice'

Adam, she's beautiful! And daughters bring you joy from birth to thirteen - then again starting at about nineteen... so all the best to you and Mrs. Slice!

This Week in Pizza

Okay, it was on this post that I wanted to thank you for the link! Still hoping to see Slice'rs up our way soon!

Kosher Pizza - Why does it suck?

*Politically Incorrect Alert - no disrespect intended!*

I've often wondered why, when the basic ingredients of pizza are all easily found kosher (almost all mozzarella is made without animal rennet), I have never tasted good, or even edible, kosher pizza. There's good kosher chinese, why not pizza? My primary conclusion is that, while your basic New York Jew is an expert on Chinese food (so many Christmas Eve dinners...) the people who make kosher pizza do not respect the pizza craft.

We've recently learned that there is a kosher pizzeria with a wood-fired oven that aspires to pizza goodness in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (Basil - www.basilny.com) - have any of you been there yet?

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