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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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Fall Menus: Autumn Staples
Be strategic on your fall menu during this persistent pandemic As COVID19 dining restrictions have tightened again around the country, it’s easy to miss that the changing season is upon us. Fall will arrive soon and usher in a bounty of comfort foo...
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Non-Traditional Pizza: Go Like a Viking
Making the best Non-Traditional Pizza “Toppings are easy. The base takes a lifetime.” — Domenico Crolla, Restaurateur and Pizza Judge Competitive pizza making always brings out the best in people, but the non-traditional category of the Inter...
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The Great Calzone: Make the dish your own
In Atlantic City this year, the calzone will officially enter the competition realm. At Pizza & Pasta Northeast 2020, the calzone competition is set to make its debut. It’s interesting the reverberating effects that these competitions have. Piz...
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Bring scratch dressing to salads, apps and pizzas
Dressed to Impress One of the first kitchen jobs I had in San Francisco was at a gourmet salad restaurant. The place had just opened in the financial district and was booming. The chef/owner had previously worked at high-end places such as Gary Danko...
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Menu Revamp: The Big Pivot
How pizzerias are thriving in strange times When restaurants nationwide began trying to figure out how to sustain business during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there were more questions than answers. And though it remains overwhelming and there stil...
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Your Guide to Summer Tomatoes
Gotten Tomatoes Summer is time for tomatoes. This umami-packed fruit can also be savory, sweet, acidic, sloppy, crunchy, spicy and nuanced all at the same time. In all pizzerias, tomatoes are in top three all-time ingredients of usage as they are pai...
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Incorporate Fresh Seasonal Greens on your Next Pizza
Summer Greens That glorious summer dough. It rarely fails to be extra fluffy and beautiful. So many fun ideas to explore when you just know your starter will explode in the summer heat. Summer is a very conflicting season for me these days. On the on...
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Summer is Peak Salad Season, so Roll with it Creatively
Salad Days Summer is, unequivocally, salad season. As the days get longer and the mercury and humidity rise, many look for lighter dining options and drink, particularly at lunch. While nothing is “normal” these days as we navigate a COVID-19 pan...
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New World Delivery Items
Adapting menu operations for COVID-19 These past few months have changed our best-laid restaurant plans, culinary directions and revenue streams. For some of us, this is a scary new world, but even though dining rooms may be shuttered and employees l...
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A 6-Step Process for Creating a New Menu
Menu Debut Visibility is the number one source of lifeblood for a business, restaurants especially. A surefire way to be seen is by getting a different look with new menu items. A new menu gives the restaurant, quite literally, an entire list of fres...
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White pizzas help diversify your menu
White Hot I’ll freely admit: I’m a tomato guy. I love the acidic, sweet, fresh flavor of an heirloom tomato right out of the garden. I equally adore the deliciousness and vibrancy a great tomato sauce gives pizza. I’m pretty heavy handed with t...
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Shredded, Diced or Sliced Mozzarella? “Cutting the Cheese”
Break down advantages of shredded, diced or sliced mozzarella The Birth of Low Moisture Mozzarella In the 1930s, Midwestern dairy producers saw an opportunity. Mozzarella had already become a popular product but took days to produce and lacked the sh...