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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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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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Hand Tossing Dough: Who’s got skills? (Videos)
Hand tossing dough is all in the technique or techniques, as pizzaiolos across the country apply their own spin to stretching dough. It’s about artisanship and showcasing pizza makers in front of awestruck customers. ...
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A look at Pizza Margherita across America (Image Gallery) NEW ADDITIONS
To celebrate Pizza Margherita Day –– June 11, 2013, the 124th anniversary of the naming of the Pizza Margherita in a letter accompanying a pizza from the Italian “Department of the Mouth” on behalf of Queen Margherita on June 11, 1889 –– ...
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Five finger-licking fried apps
Increase ticket averages with “wow” factor fried appetizers. After all, some diners go out for an evening to escape their regular diet and spurge into menu items that tantalize their taste buds. Fried apps fit the bill. Check out Pizza Today’s ...
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Chef Jeffrey Freehof Shares Five Summer Salads
I find it almost comical how salad sales spike at the beginning of the year, which derives from people’s New Year’s resolutions and then again in the spring time as people start realizing what they are going to look like in their bathing suits th...
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Ask Big Dave: Dave’s favorite pizza sauce and dough recipes
Q: What kind of pizza sauce, cheese, etc. did you use when you owned your business? penis growth guide A: I’m often asked about the products I served at Big Dave’s Pizza. As you might already have guessed, I often had my own way of doing things. ...
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Cheese Encounters
I have been involved in a complicated relationship for 14 years. My partner is fickle, moody, unstable and inconsistent, but I can’t get rid of her. Because of her voracious greed, she takes all my money, squanders it and I never see it again. Unfo...
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Dough Doctor: Dough mixing and pizza ovens
Q: How do I know when my pizza dough is properly mixed? A: Most pizza doughs as we know them are under mixed in regard to full gluten development. The only real exception is commercially made frozen pizza dough which is almost universally mixed to fu...
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Man On The Street: NY slice / artisan pizza battle
The streets of New York are in the midst of an epic battle. In one corner, the classic slice weighs in with its thin-yet-yielding crust topped with tomato sauce and low moisture mozzarella cheese. In the opposite corner waits a smaller, more delicate...
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The hottest ingredients for 2013
Today’s pizzeria customers are savvier than ever thanks in part to a growing trend in upscale options. Sure, pepperoni and cheese are still king in this industry, but customers looking for fresh, organic and locally grown toppings now have more cho...
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Dough Doctor: Wood vs. Metal Pizza Peels
Q: I was recently looking through a catalog that I got at the last Pizza Expo and I saw both wood and metal peels being offered by the different companies. Do you have a preference in one over the other? A: My preference is to use a wood peel as a pr...
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Master Of The Pan
Pizza pans matter when it comes to creating the perfect crust, flavor At an old used restaurant warehouse in West Virginia, I stared into a dark corner at several three-foot stacks of blue-steel pizza pans piled like greasy towers. Their thick, bumpy...