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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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Trending Recipe: Halloween Cookie Pizza
Print Halloween Cookie Pizza Author: Pizza Today Recipe type: Dessert, pizza Ingredients 12 ounces peanut butter cookie dough ¼ cup hot fudge sauce ½ cup crushed chocolate sandwich cookies ¼ cup Halloween candy corn 1 cup mini mar...
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Whole and Healthy
Fresh ingredients, special options becoming more important among health-conscious customers The low- and no-fat fads have come and gone, and even carb-conscious customers aren’t worrying so much when they walk through the doors of their local pizza...
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Man on the Street: Changing Tastes (Pizza Trends)
As time passes, America’s collective palate changes My parents often tell me that I was easily amused as a child. They’d sit me in a corner with a cardboard box and I’d be busy for hours. While I can’t say I’m still as entertained by...
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Trending Recipe: The Bacon & Brussels
Print Trending Recipe: The Bacon & Brussels Author: Pizza Today Ingredients 1 pizza dough 4 Brussels sprouts, roasted and quartered 4 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped 6-8 sundried tomatoes, julienned ¼ cup shredded Gouda ¼ cup sh...
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Dough Doctor: Pizza Crust Characteristics
Want a chewy or crispy pizza crust? The one thing that we all have in common is that we are trying to achieve specific characteristics in our finished pizza crust. Some are trying to achieve a soft and foldable crust, while others are looking for a c...
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Taters gonna tate
Potatoes on pizza? Yes, please Potatoes on pizza are gaining popularity in a lot of America’s pizzerias. Yes, this lowly tuber may seem an unlikely companion to pizza. But once your customers experience its broad flavor and textural horizons it can...
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Respecting the Craft: Ancient Revival
Multi-grain doughs are making their way to the mainstream This year I decided to compete again at the World Pizza Championships in Italy. It’s been three years since I have actually competed in an Italian cooking competition. As a competitor you ar...
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Trending Recipe: Pizza Dip
If you’ve been on social media lately, you’ve probably noticed a viral video making a pizza dip. We decided to try our hand at making one ourselves. Print Pizza Dip Author: Mandy Detwiler Recipe type: Appetizer Ingredients 6 ounc...
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Dough Doctor: Weights & Measures
The Dough Doctor addresses dough formula, tossing technique and slice tips Q: We make our dough using one bag of flour with the rest of the ingredients portioned out in cup and tablespoon measures. Due to an increase in business, we need to make larg...
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Ripe for the Pickin’ (Fresh Tomatoes)
Choose the right fresh tomatoes in your seasonal offerings People are passionate about fresh tomatoes. Communities across the country — like Fulton, California and Columbia, South Carolina — even honor the yearly harvest with tomato festivals. Pi...
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Go With Gnocchi
Italian staple isn’t difficult to pull off in your pizzeria As we all know, pasta comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Long and short, stuffed or stout, pasta is loved by most. An empty pizza skin or a bowl of plain pasta are to a chef what ...
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Pesto Perfection
Simple sauce has multitude of uses, twists Pesto is a sauce whose origin comes from northern Italy and is traditionally made up of fresh basil, garlic, salt, olive oil, Parmesan and pine nuts. The ingredients get blended together except for the pine ...