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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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Hot Time in the Ziti
Baked ziti an easy seller with plenty of variety ollowing the history of ziti pasta is like walking through a carnival house of mirrors. Like a lot of Italian foods, ziti is used many different ways in all areas of Italy. Baked pastas are referred to...
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Chicken Florentine: Feel the Flo
Classic dish beautiful to serve, taste What does one of the most popular spinach and chicken dishes have in common with an Italian noblewoman soon to become a French queen? Chicken Florentine of course! The year of 1599 brought the marriage of Cather...
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Crustacean Nation
Shrimp scampi a perennial Italian favorite hrimp scampi is one of those staple entrées that have adorned menus around the world for decades. Its origin starts with a langoustine, which is a tiny lobster-like crustacean generally sautéed in olive oi...
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Green Thumb
Summer is the perfect time for the entrée salad While we’re smack dab in the middle of summer, folks are busier than ever with that on-the-go lifestyle that summer somehow always brings. A lot of diners still want to eat a nice, delicious dinner b...
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Respecting the Craft: Reduce to Seduce
A reduction can surprise guests by amplifying your pizza’s flavor profile Last month I talked about liquors, aperitifs and Amaros. I mentioned that this month I’d add digestives to the mix and then tell you how you can use all of these in a surpr...
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On Tap: Will You Marry Me?
Craft beer can be matched with your dough and cheeses for a real love story We all know beer and pizza are a match made in Heaven. Pairing the right craft brew with the right pie results in a sublime experience for the diner. Ever thought about takin...
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Grilled Pizzas: Grillas in the Mist
Grilled pizza a New England staple One of the best pizzas I’ve ever tasted was a grilled pizza made on a hot summer night many moons ago. I brought some of my pizza dough home to show my wife what a great professional I was. I flattened the dough, ...
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Vine to Vinegar
Balsamic vinegar gives menus a flavor jolt with panache When I was in Modena, Italy, a few years ago I had the opportunity to explore the fascinating process of turning grapes into balsamic vinegar. Each intricately planned step, combined with time, ...
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Respecting the Craft: Liquors, Aperitifs, Amaro’s & Digestives
You’ve probably seen those bottles that are behind that bar you were drinking at and are behind almost every bar in the world. What are they for? Does anyone drink them? Beautiful bottles, timeless logos and colors that shine so bright. Most of the...
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Summer of Veggie Love
‘Tis the season to be fresh Sixteen years ago, a farmer named Bill Shores walked into my pizzeria with a giant box of garlic. He said that he had too much and offered to sell it to me for cheap. By the end of that summer, I was marketing and sellin...
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The Heat is On
Choose the right oven for your pizza If a pizzeria’s nerve center is the kitchen, the oven is its brain. The single most important purchase one can make when opening a new pizza restaurant can be the most confusing without a strong understanding of...
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Dressings: From scratch
It’s summer — peak time for salad sales. Here are some simple dressing ideas to inspire you to make them from scratch: Ranch dressing is easy enough. Odds are that you have everything you need to make a ranch dressing in your shop. Check out this...