January 2010

When Scott Gittrich founded Toppers Pizza in Champaign, Illinois, in 1991, he didn’t look for prime locations for his shop. After all, in the early 1990’s, 95 percent of his stores’ sales were delivery. But as his pizzerias became more popular ...

White pizza is the hot new trend in fi ne dining Italian restaurants. For example, a fi ne-dining restaurant here in Chicago recently switched cuisines mid-bite –– it went from contemporary American to Italian –– and one of its featured dishe...

I have been thinking about adding take-and bake pizza to my menu. Can I use my regular dough, or do I need a special dough?     Making take-and-bake pizza can be a pretty simple proposition, or it can be a bit more in depth, requiring a spe...

In The Kitchen / Bread Dame Solaris Parka Dame Thompson Labor Of Love Can you make bread in-house? By Steve Coomes Photos by Rick Daugherty It’s 6 a.m. on a Saturday, and loaves of artisan bread are pouring from the mouth of the impinger oven a...