Category: Pizza
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Bootleggers Pizza Review, Biloxi, MS
Bootleggers Pizza Review, Biloxi, MS Bootlegger’s Pizza in Biloxi, Mississippi touts themselves as the home of authentic Chicago thin-crust pizza. As I live in Chicago part time, naturally I had to check it out. The downstairs of the facility is for ‘family’ dine-in experiences from their full menu featuring pizza, pasta, wings, burgers and sammiches. […]
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Champion Frozen Pizza Review
Champion Frozen Pizza Review Champion Pizza is a frozen pizza line started in 1981 in the microdot town of Hebron (Illinois, not Palestine). Like many frozen pizzas in the Upper Midwest, they got their start supplying to restaurants and bars before landing shelf space in regional grocery stores. They also supply products for charitable […]
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La Pizza Via Review – Fox River Grove, IL
La Pizza Via Review Where else can you go that offers nearly every regional type of pizza from across the country??? La Pizza Via has NY/New Haven thin crust, Pan pizza with a thicker crust, baked in a square. Of course Chicago’s favorite, cracker thin, cut in squares (many people call it “tavern style).” And […]
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Caradaro Club Pizza Review – Milwaukee WI
Arguably Milwaukee’s oldest pizzeria, the Caradaro Club was started in the mid 40s, as the popularity of pizza grew in the US due to returning European theater GI’s, who had experienced in while serving. Starting with a fully-proofed, very thin crust made with low gluten flour, the Caradaro is all about “tavern style” pizza, cracker […]
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Vito and Nicks Pizza Review, Chicago, IL
Arguably the oldest pizzeria in Chicago, Vito and Nicks started as a tavern only in the 30s, before adding pizza a few years later. While most people in America associate “deep dish” pizza with Chicago, it didn’t really come along til a decade or more later. Til then, and even today, what we all “tavern […]
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Outsiders Pizza Review – Nationwide Frozen Food Product
Do you remember when craft beer started to take off, to the surprise of the giant brewers? So what did they do, they created spin-off “mini-companies” with new brews, and marketing them as such. So we didn’t know that Miller (or whomever) was behind “Bob’s Garage Brew – the beer made with sink water from […]
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Gloriosos Fresh Italian Sausage Review – Milwaukee, WI
Today I used some of their fresh Italian sausages for a home-made pizza. I only picked up two, of the “hot” not “sweet” variety, and they run about four ounces apiece at about a buck twenty per. I have this quirk which there is no rhyme nor reason for. When I’m making a sausage pizza, I […]
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7-Eleven Frozen Pizza Review – Nationwide
7-Eleven Frozen Pizza Review A few years back, 7-Eleven made some rather dramatic decisions – to go into the hot, ready to eat food business and to replace many of the standard shelf offerings with house brand merchandise ( 7-Select). Both moves appear to have been very successful. With a history that dates back to the 1920s, and originally […]
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Sal and Mookies Pizza Review – Biloxi, MS
“John and Mitchy were getting kind of itchy…” wait….. “Sal and Mookie were feeling kinda ooky..” Sorry. Really obscure and I’m dating myself. So apparently these two guys were in the restaurant business in Jackson, MS (a hotbed of dining lately, really) and they decided they wanted to go into the NY style pizza biz. […]
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Pizza Sauces Compared – Home Cooking
It literally took me decades to figure out how to make a great pizza at home. Now I prefer my own to nearly any pizzeria. You have to pick and choose your ingredients, there are so many options in a standard pie, flour, sauce, cheese, meats, veggies. I’m really picky about Italian sausage and pepperoni […]