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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: Rigatoni with Fresh Tomatoes, Arugula
This Rigatoni with Fresh Tomatoes and Arugula pasta is the easiest recipe to make, and it’s deceptively delicious. You’ve probably got all the ingredients on hand. We love the tart vinegar and the earthy arugula. Give it a try! Print Rigatoni wit...
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Five Sandwich-inspired Pizzas
Look to popular regional sandwiches for pizza inspiration Sandwiches and pizzas share the holy trinity of dough, cheese and sauce. So why not draw inspiration from some of the country’s most beloved sandwiches for your next pizza special? Look to y...
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Go Big — Extra Large Pizzas
Oversized pies become a big hit From supersized value meals and Big Gulps to 31-ounce coffees and oversized SUVs, everything these days seems bigger. Does bigger mean better? According to pizzeria operators when it comes to pizza –– the an...
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Pepperoncini: Mild Yet Wild
So-called Tuscan peppers pack a flavorful punch Pepperoncini come packing just a little heat and are used widely in Italian and Greek cuisine and accompany every pizza that Papa John’s and others serve to their patrons. Pepperoncini hail from Europ...
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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...