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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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Pizza Today reader asks for sweet dessert recipes
SOMETHING SWEET Q: We’ve outsourced desserts for the last four years. I’d like for us to make our own, but don’t know if it will be worth our time and labor cost. Which way is better for us? Tabitha Rusk Santa Clara, California A: Tabitha, it r...
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Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar rolls out Pizzaburger to U.S. diners
Last week, we told you about a Japanese chain that combined two beloved foods into one –– pizza and hamburgers. Now, a U.S. chain is introducing the same concept to American diners. Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, the American...
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Dough Doctor: Baker’s Percent
Some people have accused me of making my dough formulas too complex and difficult to make because I insist upon giving the ingredient amounts in percentages. Actually, they’re given in what is called “baker’s percent”. I must admi...
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Japanese restaurant chain launches pizza/burger hybrid
A Japanese fast food chain has launched a new item that will appeal to folks who love both burgers and pizza. Can’t decide between the two? Pizza Little Party Kyoto’s limited-edition Megaburgerpizza costs ?2,580, or about $26.46 US, and c...
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A Guide to Garlic Knots (HOW-TO VIDEO)
Earlier this week, we asked our Facebook fans: What’s your bestselling, low-cost menu item? Garlic knots was the undisputed winner. At Pizza Today, we sing the praises of buttery garlic knots. Our Man on the Street Scott Weiner loves them too: ...
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Tony Gemignani talks Parmigiano-Reggiano
Not too long ago I was in Parma, Italy, for the Campionato Mondiale della Pizza with a few members of The World Pizza Champions and Pizza Today magazine. While there, we had the pleasure and privilege to take a tour of a dairy that produces Parmigian...
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Pizzeria worker tests positive for Hepatitis A
This is the kind of story that can make anyone feel a bit squeamish. A pizzeria cook in Utah tested positive for Hepatitis A. Customers who visited the restaurant during the hours the employee worked have been asked to notify the local health departm...
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Bell Peppers, one of the best weapons in your arsenal
Sweet peppers are one of the most versatile and forgiving vegetables around. They can take a beating and come out perfect. Roasting peppers heightens them with an initial frontal mouth-blast before the caramelized sugars kick in for a delicious finis...
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Dough Doctor Tom Lehmann takes a look at forging a single store in the pizza industry
Q: Is there still room in the pizza industry for an independent to get started? A: To answer your question in one word, yes. Pizza is a constantly evolving food that has great appeal to a very high percentage of our population across all age categori...
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You say Panini, I say panino
Panini is the plural form for panino, which is literally the term for “small bread roll” in Italian. Technically, any sliced bread shouldn’t be called a panini or panino, but even in Italy, most sandwich shop operators will let you get by with ...
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Creative grains can make your dough stand out
At 4:30 pm on August 15th, 2009, I made the best business decision I’d made since opening my pizzeria ten years earlier. I changed my dough. I had been in business for more than nine years. That steamy day, I cruised up and down the undulating hill...
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Dough equipment delivers heightened efficiencies in the kitchen
Darren Lister has his eyes on growth. Already with 12 Hideaway Pizza locations spread about Oklahoma, Lister and his partners are looking to build two new units each year, eventually expanding beyond their Oklahoma homeland into neighboring states. T...