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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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Flatbread Pizza: The World is Flat
Flatbread pizzas provide operations a nice limited-time offering Flatbreads have been around thousands of years. Our early ancestors, once they learned to harness fire, took grain, water and salt and cooked the concoction on rocks heated by flames. T...
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Cauliflower Crust: The Chameleon
Cauliflower crust pizza, a go-to alternative Cauliflower is everywhere these days, from rice to mashed potatoes to pizza. It’s a flowering member of the cabbage family. Known as cruciferous vegetable, the nutrient-dense cauliflower is the chamele...
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New Wave of American Pizza
A new crop of pizza makers are ignoring the rules and achieving their own vision Being the rolling stone that it is, pizza has gathered no moss since first gracing America’s lips in the late 19th century. It’s clear that what was once considered ...
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Man on the Street: New Frontiers in Cheese
I’ve got a chip on my shoulder about cheese. It gets all the attention despite being the pizza component that requires the least amount of effort. You toil over your dough’s ingredients and fermentation schedule. You carefully select the right to...
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Mortadella: Don’t Call Me Bologna
The classic Italian cured sausage — Mortadella on Pizza Let’s set the record straight. Mortadella is not an Italian version of that famous American lunchmeat. Traditional Mortadella is made with finely ground pork, high-quality pork fat (typi...
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Summer Pasta: Tis the season
Personally speaking, I tend to gravitate to heavier pasta dishes. I love the richness of a well-done Alfredo. I am a sucker for the smokiness of a good carbonara. I enjoy a pasta laden with all the meats. What can I say? It is just the way my palate ...
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Craft Soda: Bubbling Up
What You Need to Know about the Craft Soda Trend What beverages should you offer up alongside your beautifully crisped, fresh-out-of-the-oven pies? While customers used to be content with a modest selection of beer, wine and major soft drink brands, ...
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Next Level Antipasto
Taking the traditional app from basic to stand out An antipasto is your chance for a wow factor at the beginning of a meal. Eight hundred years ago, in Italy the antipasto was a social starting point for the beginning of a meal. For me, as a kid I th...
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Man on the Street: “The ABCs of CBD”
The CBD-infused Food Trend According to the National Restaurant Association, the top two dining trends in 2019 are CDB-infused drinks and CDB-infused food. For those unfamiliar with the term, CBD is the abbreviation for cannabidoil, which is a natura...
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Pork Project
Sausage combos never go out of style A staple of your pizza protein offerings, sausage is one of the undisputed customer topping favorites. Second only to pepperoni on a national scale, it’s a flavorful option you simply cannot go without. A histor...
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Pizza Toppings: Egg-cellent
Eggs on Pizza Egg takes rightful spot on the pizza menu Last month, through trial and error — we were able to successfully cook eggs directly on a pizza in the Pizza Today Test Kitchen. It was a feat and the challenge of it triggered a quest to fin...
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Ravioli Filling: In Between the Sheets
Ravioli’s roots run deep in Italian history and it is one of those iconic foods that was born out of necessity and even poverty. This stuffed pasta was first mentioned in a 14th century manuscript with a recipe of fresh cheese, egg and fresh herbs....