Stories about where our food comes from and the places that made it famous: how New York-style pizza became an American icon, what makes a classic neighborhood pizzeria work, and the pizza scene in Albany, New York.
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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.
A sourced look at Albany and Capital Region pizza: long-running shops, All Over Albany's Tournament of Pizza, the I Love NY Pizza name and recent closings.
Why slices go back in the oven, what the menu board is built on, where the pizza box came from and what happened to New York's Pizza Principle.
