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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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Drop A Fresh Beet
Move over salads, beets have hit the pizza menu I’ll never forget the pizzeria that went all-in on beets with its CSA Pizza. Galactic Pizza in Minneapolis, Minnesota featured a beet puree-based pizza that was so vibrantly colorful and unique that i...
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Man on the Street: “Livin’ On the Edge”
If you’re paying any attention at all, you know that the best pizza makers spend their time chasing the perfect crust. Funky topping combinations might get the Internet’s attention, but they’re not winning anybody a James Beard award. Pizza mak...
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Ricotta: So Cool
Ricotta gives your pizza a new texture and charm Ricotta is a versatile ingredient that every pizza kitchen needs to utilize. The cheese brings a coolness and creaminess to pies and plays well with so many topping combinations. Its slightly granular ...
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Cauliflower Dreaming
Cauliflower comes from a large family of many different colors and shapes that grows in tropical and temperate climates around the world. Until lately, the last place you would find cauliflower is in a pizzeria, but with customers new non-gluten/keto...
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Appetizers: Let’s Get It Started
Introduce new wow starters When Pizza Today’s 2019 Independent Pizzeria of Year chef/owner Nick Strawhecker of Dante presented us with a spread of shareable delicacies, I knew we were in for a special treat during a visit to sister restaurant, Forn...
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2020 Menu Guide
Get appetizer, pizza, main dish and dessert recipes to take your menu into the 2020s. Browse Pizza Today’s 2020 Menu Guide: Summertime Pie Get the Summertime Pie recipe. Parmesan Zucchini Sticks Get the Parmesan Zucchini Sticks re...
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Stuffed Pizzas: The Stuff of Legends
There’s more than one way to stuff a pizza Stuffed-crust pizzas isn’t a new idea. Pizza Hut has been one-upping its stuffed-crust pizza since it debuted in 1995. The pizza chain has rolled out bacon and cheese, grilled cheese and pepperoni stuffe...
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Man on the Street: “It Just Doesn’t Work”
Something’s wrong. The pizza you thought would be the star of your menu isn’t selling. Did you price it wrong? Is it too weird? Does it just taste terrible? As an entrepreneur, you’re constantly throwing ideas against the wall. Sometimes they s...
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Chicken Wings: Taking Flight
Wings remain as relevant as ever — here’s how to help sales soar I love wings. Something about the vinegary, spicy flavor tempts my taste buds in all the right ways. Baked, fried … doesn’t matter. Prefer them naked, but breaded will do in a p...
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The Climbers: Pizza Topping trends and how to cash in on them
There’s a pizza meme going around of the brutal scene in Casino where Joe Pesci is forced to watch his brother get whacked. However, instead of his brother, it’s pineapple going on pizza. The point of the meme is to show how traumatic it is t...
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Top That: Dollops add gusto to great pizzas
While I can’t remember the first time I ate a pizza with dollops of any cheese, I do remember the first one that wowed me. It was Tony Gemignani’s New Yorker at Pizza Rock in Sacramento I traveled to my first year at Pizza Today. The dollops of r...
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Melter Skeltor
Cheese combinations are on everyone’s minds these days I once went to see a baseball game with my son and a few friends. As we sat around the hotel pool after the game, a friend called to have some pizza delivered. The pizza came piping hot as al...