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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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Dough Doctor: Adding a thick-crust pizza
They say that variety is the spice of life, and it is no different with pizza. While your customers may love your present offering, they might also be interested in something a little different from your mainstream pizza. It’s easy to change the to...
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2016 Menu Trends — So Hot!
These modern ingredients bring versatility, sophistication to menus I work with a lot of unusual ingredients in the Pizza Today test kitchen –– from quail eggs we had to source off season from a tiny Asian market to ground lamb for meatballs. Tod...
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Research and Development Done Right
For independent pizzerias, adding a new menu item should be a thoughtful decision For Jason McGovern, owner of Denver Deep Dish, a three-year-old pizzeria based in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, putting the effort and investment into launching a ...
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Respecting the Craft: Sauce Boss
Give this delectable BBQ sauce a try Last month I discussed my hesitation to add a BBQ Chicken pizza to the menu in my San Francisco restaurant. But I finally put my own twist on one and threw caution to the wind. Now, I want to help you step yours u...
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Trending Recipe: Caramelized Butternut Squash Pizza
Print Trending Recipe: Caramelized Butternut Squash Pizza Author: Pizza Today Ingredients 14-ounce dough ball 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons pesto ¾ cup caramelized butternut squash (recipe follows) 2 ounces of goat ch...
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Dough Doctor: Mixer capacity, presses
Q: I have a 50-quart capacity spiral mixer. Can I mix a dough based on only 25 pounds of flour with my mixer? A: I did a rather extensive study on spiral design mixers a number of years ago for a major manufacturer. What we found was that spiral desi...
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Not Your Mama’s Meatballs
Got meatballs? These recipes step outside the box I don’t know about you, but there is just one word — whether spoken in hushed tones or over the din of a crowded restaurant — that brings out all the passion, respect and dignity from t...
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Pretty Fly for a Bar Pie
Unique pizza style gaining attention When Adam Kuban started blogging about pizza in 2003, he had no plans of ever running a restaurant. Eleven years later he finds himself at the helm of Margot’s Pizza, a pop-up that’s getting more praise...
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Sweet Treat: Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a crowd favorite Like pizza, cheesecake is a highly customizable dish. Though it can be savory in other parts of the world, in America cheesecake is most often equated with words like “sweet”, “rich” and “creamy.” The only r...
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Dough Doctor: Pre-packaged dough measurements, cooler storage
Q: We want to use pre-weighed “goodie bags” for our ingredients that would include the yeast, but I’ve read that it is not recommended that yeast and salt or sugar be allowed to come into direct contact with each other. How do they do this comm...
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Jalapeños: We got the Heat
Jalapeños are the preferred pizza pepper Americans love pizza, and they love peppers. You’d be hard pressed to find a pizzeria without hot peppers somewhere on their menu. In the infancy of gourmet pizza, ham, pineapple and jalapeños was about as...
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Respecting the Craft: Back to BBQ
Recently a friend asked why I don’t have a BBQ chicken pizza on the menu. My answer: The San Francisco food critics would kill me. Back in the day, we had a couple of pizzas with chicken and BBQ at my brother’s pizzeria. And they were big sellers...