Pizza & Recipes
New York-Style Pizza Dough: A Step-by-Step Recipe
The foundation dough for New York-style pizza at home: a weight-based formula in baker's percentages, cold-fermented 24 to 72 hours for flavor and easy stretching.
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How New York-Style Pizza Became an American Icon
Neapolitan bakers, coal ovens, then the gas deck oven and the slice: how New York pizza went national, and why the Lombardi's 1905 origin story is in doubt.
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A saucy 9x13 baked ziti with ricotta, low-moisture mozzarella and optional sausage, plus how to keep it from drying out, make it ahead and freeze it.
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Dough by weight, sauce that tastes like tomatoes, and the oven tricks that make a home pie crisp.
Pizza & Recipes · Recipe
How to Make a Classic New York Cheese Pizza
Turn New York-style dough and sauce into a crisp, foldable 14-inch cheese pie, with steel and stone bake times and the doneness cues that matter.
Pizza & Recipes · Recipe
Homemade Pizza Sauce with Simple Ingredients
The uncooked, pizzeria-style sauce: how to pick canned tomatoes, get the texture right, portion it for 12- to 16-inch pies and store it.
Pizza & Recipes · Guide
How to Stretch Pizza Dough Without Tearing It
Most torn pizza dough is too cold, too tight or over-fermented. Here's how to get it ready, stretch it over your knuckles and patch a hole without starting over.
Pizza & Recipes · Guide
How to Bake Crispy Pizza in a Home Oven
Preheat a steel or stone for a full hour, use the broiler for the top, and keep wet toppings light: how to get a crisp, browned crust from a regular oven.
Pizza & Recipes · Guide
New York vs. Neapolitan Pizza: What’s the Difference?
A side-by-side comparison of New York and Neapolitan pizza, from flour and oven heat to cheese, size and the fold, checked against the official Neapolitan rules.
Pizza & Recipes · Guide
Best Cheese for Pizza: Mozzarella and More
Low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella is the best all-around pizza cheese. Here is why, when fresh mozzarella, provolone, Parmesan, brick or ricotta fit better, and how much to use.
Italian-American Food
All Italian-American Italian-American favorites
The red-sauce classics: baked, simmered and built for a crowd.
Italian-American Food · Recipe
Homemade Garlic Knots with Garlic Butter
Pizzeria-style garlic knots from cold-fermented NY pizza dough: portioned by weight, tied loosely, baked at 425°F and tossed hot in garlic butter. Store-bought dough works too.
Italian-American Food · Recipe
Baked Ziti: Classic Italian-American Comfort Food
A saucy 9x13 baked ziti with ricotta, low-moisture mozzarella and optional sausage, plus how to keep it from drying out, make it ahead and freeze it.
Italian-American Food · Recipe
Spaghetti and Meatballs: A Home-Cooked Classic
Italian-American spaghetti and meatballs for 6: a milk-soaked bread panade, beef and pork, a gentle simmer in whole-tomato sauce, and how to freeze the meatballs raw or cooked.
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Where pizza came from, the shops that shaped it and the restaurants people talk about.
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How New York-Style Pizza Became an American Icon
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A small, independent food publication
Northern Blvd Food Journal covers pizza first — dough, sauce, cheese, ovens — then the Italian-American dishes that share a table with it and the history and restaurants that make the food culture interesting. Articles are fact-checked by the journal's editors, recipes list exact US and metric amounts, and every historical claim points to a source you can check.
This web address once belonged to a neighborhood pizzeria in Albany, New York, that closed in 2023. The journal is not connected to that business; we kept the name in the address as a nod to the kind of place we write about.
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