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Detroit Style Pizza: A Guide to Detroit Pizza
Discover Detroit-Style Pizza Detroit style pizza is a square, deep dish pizza that is known for its racing stripes sauce on top, cheese crust crown and light crust. Whether you call them red tops or square pizza, Detroit-style pizza is a unique pizza style that hast become one of the hottest pizza styles and one […]
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Man on the Street: The Rebirth of the New York Slice
New York City’s pizza scene experienced an identity crisis over the past decade. If you asked me to define “New York style” pizza in the early 2000s, I would have told you it’s a large, thin, puffy-edged pizza sold by the slice and eaten via ...
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The Sicilian: How to Make Sicilian Pizza
If you wish to offer Sicilian style pizza in your pizzeria, all it takes is a few hardware pieces, and plenty of patience or over 3,000 years the island of Sicily has experienced a steady stream of naval powers, raids, invasions and occupations. Beca...
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Five Awesome Sauce Pizza Base Ideas
Get out of the basic red sauce rut with these five pizza sauces pizza’s sauce might just be the ultimate change up to its flavor. Sauce is an important link in the holy trinity of pizza (crust, cheese and sauce). You can go subtle to accentuate oth...
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Roll Out: Maximizing a New Menu Item Launch
Lightning has struck, and you’ve come up with a great new menu idea. You’ve tried it out, tweaked it a few times, and you know that it’s pretty solid. You’ve had people that don’t mind offending you tell you they love it too. When this happ...
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Presto: Add versatile pesto to your menu
Most pizza shops have two categories of pies. Red or white. But what about that illusive third option? Green. Pesto can be a replacement for sauce or used as a topping. It can be made vegan or extra cheesy. There are endless ingredients that you can ...
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Hot in Pizza: Explore 2021 Menu Trends
The most exciting competition at Pizza Expo is always the Non-traditional division. Free from the limitations of other categories, it’s a showcase for experimentation that often inspires pizzeria menus for the following year. Without the benefit of...
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Revenge of the Curds: Specialty Cheeses to Add to Your Menu
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War The year 2020 marked one of the most tumultuous restaurant years in my lifetime. Because of Covid, my business model was shaken by new state rules, staff h...
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Mike’s Monthly Tip: Curated Beer List
I don’t like listening to the Billboard Top 40. I never have. I don’t like songs that have no relation to each other. I don’t like listening to music that hasn’t proven it can stand the test of time. Don’t get me wrong, I love new music —...
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Explore ways to maximize mushrooms — Making Room
Explore Mushrooms on Pizza Pepperoni has one implementation on pizza. Pepperoni goes on top, before the bake like any other typical topping. The size and taste of the pepperonis will vary, but there aren’t multiple species of pepperoni. Mushrooms, ...
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Pastabilities: Adding vegan pastas to your menu
The plant-based movement has arrived if you haven’t noticed. “Plant-based” has now replaced “vegan” as the primary new term describing a diet that is animal product free. Being vegetarian can mean a number of things but just to set t...
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Latin-inspired Pizzas: Bold times call for a boldly flavored pizza
Such a Jerk The Latin world is a diverse, colorful, vibrant and flavorful realm. More than 30 countries in South America, Central America, North America (Mexico) and the Caribbean Islands comprise Latin America. The topography and cultural influences...
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Hoagie’s Heroes: Sandwich Menu Ideas
Specialty sandwiches can be a much needed boost to your menu Not many businesses have such overlapping culinary footprints as pizzerias and sandwich places. Both have a base of wheat followed by cheeses, vegetables, proteins and even cold greens. The...