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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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Decadent Desserts
Tempt your customers with sweet dessert offerings Desserts can be a tough sell in a pizzeria. After a customer has filling breadsticks, pizza and beer or soda, there’s often no room left for a sweet treat. Perhaps that’s why lemon sorbet or melt-...
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Makeline Marinades
Yes, you can — and should — make your own marinades The art of transforming meats, vegetables and fish is as age-old as food itself. Marinating is the use of acids, salts, enzymatic liquids, spices, oils and herbs to not only tenderize me...
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Get Busy
Don’t overlook restaurant kitchen design for maximum efficiency We all know that location, location, location is oh-so-important to our business success. By now we’ve come to understand the basics to restaurant success and that is, besides locati...
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Trending Recipe: Valentine’s Day Pizza
How To: Heart-shaped Pizza If you’re sitting there wondering how to create a heart-shaped pizza, it’s easier than you think. We used butcher paper folded in half and cut a large heart. We then traced the heart onto a pizza box and cut it out. Aft...
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Respecting the Craft: Grandma Pie Recipe for Success
Tony Gemignani shares his Grandma Pie Recipe Last month I talked about my experiences with the “Grandma” pie that originated on Long Island. Over the past few years I’ve seen this simple — yet delicious — pizza turn up in other parts of the...
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Say Cheese!
Pizzerias move beyond mozzarella serving modern cheese pizza instead The saying may go, “don’t fix what isn’t broke,” but operators would be remiss to ignore the vast variety of non-traditional cheeses that are readily available. From smoky G...
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Run Around ’Su — Tiramisu Recipes
These non-traditional tiramisu recipes are anything but typical “Pick me up!” Sure, that’s what your kids said when they were small, but it’s also the literal translation of tiramisu, because it gives you a “pick me up” from the coffee th...
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Commentary: Trust me, your Grandma is hot
As Art Director Josh Keown and I trekked across Los Angeles recently, I couldn’t help but get a kick out of the coincidence. We’d been in about a dozen pizzerias in the City of Angels and had tasted everything from mundane to memorable. But the o...
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Trending Recipe: French Brûlée Martini
This toasty martini is served warm. It’s perfect for cold-weather months and includes seasonal items you don’t need to store year ’round. French Brûlée Martini Courtesy of BoomBozz Pizza and Taphouse, Louisville, Kentucky 2 ounces top-...
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Trending Recipe: Smoky Bourbon Barbecue Sauce
Bourbon is white hot right now and can be found as flavoring in everything from bacon to candy. Pizza Today is located right in the heart of bourbon country, so we gave this smoky bourbon barbecue sauce a go — and it was finger lickin’ good! Smok...
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Respecting the Craft: Grandma
Tony G. explores the rising national popularity of this Long Island staple — Grandma-style pizza Nearly 15 years ago I tried a grandma pizza near Bari, Italy. Ironically, it was in a pizzeria named Big Apple Pizza. I was with George Giove at hi...
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Bar Bites
Developing a bar, happy hour or late-night menu will only increase food and beverage sales Whether you have a full bar or sell a small selection of beer and wine, designing a series of appetizers, small plates or specialty menu items appealing...