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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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Bacon on Pizza: Crispy Business
“Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.” – George Takei As I visit my farmer friends for vegetables to make artisan pizzas throughout the week, I always keep an eye out for the best-selling items like asparagus, strawberry, tomat...
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What’s in Plant-Based Pepperoni and Mozzarella?
Pizzeria operators can incorporate these innovative ingredients to answer consumer demand Plant-based ingredients are gaining popularity, including on pizza. According to Datassential, plant-based items have been rapidly growing in menu prevalence, a...
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Ground Beef Can be a Star in Your Pizzeria
Rumble in the Crumble The question blew my mind 22 years ago as my designated food salesperson showed me his two ground beef pizza toppings; The bag of individually quick-frozen beef crumbles looked like cemetery soil ready to be thrown on a pizza li...
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Sustainably Sourcing Ingredients
Operators say buying flour, tomatoes and cheese from environmentally friendly providers can be time consuming but rewarding When it comes to sourcing ingredients, the term “sustainable” refers to whether the food was grown or produced in a way th...
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The Great Grinder
A guide to making the classic sandwich Grinder, hoagie, Italian sandwich, hero, sub, wedge, zep, bomber, torpedo. Depending where you are from, this iconic sandwich has a different name and connotation. For most, it is as nostalgic as a classic chees...
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Add Party Packages and Family Style Menu Options During the Holidays
Bundle Up This Holiday Season with Party Packages Let’s face it, the holiday season is busy. With all the things that we have on our to-do lists, sometimes it’s all too easy to lose sight of what’s most important about the holidays: our friends...
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A Guide to Making Sausage in House and Pizza Topping Combos
Sausage Sizzles As far as meat toppings go, I used to be firmly in the pepperoni camp. Lately though, I’ve realized the beauty in a simple sausage slice. With the right sausage, it has all the elements of an unadorned cheese slice with bursts of ex...
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Man on the Street: The Bagel Trend
A ‘Hole’ New Future for Pizzerias I don’t know if pizza makers are getting inspired or bored, but I’ve noticed a trend in pizzaioli getting serious about bagel baking. Maybe you’ve seen bagel experiments on the social media accounts...
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A Good, Versatile Vodka Sauce
“Vodka sauce is wonderful. Pairing it with penne is classier, but rigatoni is more subversive.” — Chef Joe Bianco High Spirits There are more ways to make vodka sauce than there are galaxies in the sky. Just read the glorious online promises fr...
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East Coast Seafood Inspiration for the Pizza Menu
Pier Pressure As I get ready for the Pizza and Pasta Northeast show in Atlantic City this coming October 16th, I’ve been thinking of that wonderful Atlantic Ocean breeze, the boardwalk and the smell of seafood… on pizza. In fact, Tony’s Baltimo...
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Man on the Street: Death of the Dollar Slice
New York City has long been a city of slices. While other locales thrive on either dine-in or takeout, NYC’s pedestrian culture has led to a tradition of consuming individual slices (of cheese pizza) on-the-go. Just over a decade ago, in the wake o...
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What Makes a Good Vegetable-centric pizza?
Veg Fest Veggie toppings often get put into two categories: very simple or overly complicated. I find that pizzerias either offer the most basic vegetables, such as sliced mushrooms or raw bell peppers, or make things that sound extremely time consum...