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Passion-4-Pizza joins the Social Networking universe!Some of our visitors have discovered a major addition to Passion-4-Pizza: a Facebook fan page! There you'll find up-to-the-minute updates, featured pages, and interaction among our friends and fans - you know, Facebook! Come visit, and while you're there, don't forget to press the Like button at the top of the page! And speaking of interaction, a big change on the passion-4-pizza.com site: most of our pages now feature Comments! We know - it's about time. Sam's Pizzeria, Northampton MAWhen they gave out the 'funky' template for college town pizzerias, Sam's Pizzeria and Cafe was somewhere near the front of the line. How was the pizza? Find out here. Permalink -- click for full blog post "Sam's Pizzeria, Northampton MA" Portable Pizza Ovens - Joseph Pergolizzi and The Fire WithinEver think about owning a PORTABLE wood-fired pizza oven? We visited Joseph Pergolizzi of <I>The Fire Within</I> who makes portable pizza ovens, sells them, and helps people start their own wood-fired pizza businesses (his next business-building workshop is coming up in February)! Read more about it here... Permalink -- click for full blog post "Portable Pizza Ovens - Joseph Pergolizzi and The Fire Within" New Jersey Pizza - Trenton's FinestThe most famous New Jersey pizza is in Trenton, where they call it "tomato pie". DiLorenzo's, one of the most famous, will be closing their Trenton location on 1/15/12. Here is our review from 2010. Permalink -- click for full blog post "New Jersey Pizza - Trenton's Finest" Our Biggest News Ever!We weren't going public with this - yet. But since Peter Reinhart published our letter to subscribers on his Pizza Quest blog, we decided to share it with all of you!
Dear Friends, You know that the two of us have been on a fascinating pizza journey since we started passion-4-pizza.com in 2008. Eating pizza in exotic (and not-very-exotic) locations, making and experimenting with our own pizza, getting to know pizza-makers and pizza lovers all over the place, and most importantly, studying both the craft and the business of pizza from the masters. Well, we're doing a lot more than that. We're in the early stages of the biggest project of our lives, the zenith of our passion for pizza. Lillian and Cary are going pro.We're going into business by opening Pizzeria Forno in the Hudson Valley region of New York - a vegetarian pizzeria in a country setting (serving both artisanal wood-fired pizza and the New York styles we’ve always loved) and Il Forno Mobile - taking our artisanal pizza to the people via a mobile wood-fired oven from The Fire Within! You're among the first to know and we hope you'll want to share in this adventure. We’re looking for financial partners. Our business plan is encouraging and we're offering a limited number of old and new friends, family members, and you our subscribers, the opportunity to invest in our passion, our skills and our dream as we build Pizzeria Forno and Il Forno Mobile. And we’re doing our best to make that investment affordable. Want to know more about participating in (and profiting from) our dream-come-true? There's so much to tell, and we're so excited about this... send us an email at 2-of-us@passion-4-pizza.com and we'll get right back to you! All the best, Cary & Lillian Permalink -- click for full blog post "Our Biggest News Ever!" Pizza Palooza in ... southeastern Michigan?We lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan for two years and loved living there - although our pizza experiences were not very good - until we discovered Tomatoes Apizza a New Haven-style coal-fired pizzeria 40 miles away, in Farmington Hills, MI. Well, we just found out that this past Sunday, Farmington Hills celebrated National Pizza month with their Pizza Palooza - 12 local pizzerias (6 of them chains) competing and providing the raison d'etre for the event. You can read about the event here. Although the "judges" went for Bella Vita, a place best known for 'broasted' chicken, and Hungry Howie's, a local chain, the People's Choice award went to our favorite Michigan pizzeria - Tomatoes Apizza! To read about our Michigan pizza experiences, visit the link below: Permalink -- click for full blog post "Pizza Palooza in ... southeastern Michigan?" Il Dolce - Great Pizza in Orange CountyIl Dolce in Costa Mesa serves some of the best pizza we've had anywhere. What makes it so good? Permalink -- click for full blog post "Il Dolce - Great Pizza in Orange County" Chicken Tikka DelightHere's a topping recipe from a pizzeria in Pakistan! Chicken Tikka is not just easy-to-cook but tastes fabulous on pizza. Chicken Tikka (chunks) are Permalink -- click for full blog post "Chicken Tikka Delight" Full Of Life Flatbread, Los Alamos, CAFull Of Life Flatbread: Delicious wood-fired flatbread in California's Central Coast region. But is it pizza? Find out here! Permalink -- click for full blog post "Full Of Life Flatbread, Los Alamos, CA" The Paulie Gee ExperienceNo, it's not a band... but given Paulie's taste in music, if it was we'd want to hear it. Can you get to Brooklyn? Well, "Making Pizza with Paulie Gee" is a three-hour passionate pizza experience now available at 1000passions.com. You and a guest (or more) can share in the joy of making perfect pizza with Paulie Gee himself, as well as enjoying some of Paulie's signature pies (and his company) all at Paulie Gee's in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! The details are here at 1000passions.com You know we're big fans of Paulie Gee and his Greenpoint Pizza Joint. If you haven't read about Cary's experience working at Paulie Gee's you'll find it at the link below... Permalink -- click for full blog post "The Paulie Gee Experience" New! CommentsHave something to say? Leave us a comment in the box below. |
