{"id":8501,"date":"2012-12-01T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2012-12-01T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:38:26","slug":"culinary-circle-flatbread-crust-3-meat-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8501","title":{"rendered":"Culinary Circle Flatbread Crust 3 Meat Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Culinary Circle<\/a> is a private label brand from manufacturer Richelieu Foods<\/a>. \u00a0Products are marketed in a large variety of grocery chains, including Super Valu, Albertsons, Cub, and Shaws.<\/p>\n

Richelieu dates back to 1862, and for the first 100 years or so, was primarily known as a packager of salad dressings and sauces. \u00a0Diversification came with the influx of new capital from a sale to private equity.<\/p>\n

Their frozen pizzas are manufactured in plants in Wisconsin and Ohio, for nationwide distribution. \u00a0Richelieu was named “Pizza Manufacturer of the Year” in 2006<\/p>\n

The flatbread crust pizza comes shrink wrapped on a cardboard round inside a box for display. \u00a0 Toppings include a blend of cheeses (Parmesan, Romano, and fontina) , capicola ham, Italian sausage, and salami.<\/p>\n

For my personal palate, I added sliced green olives.<\/p>\n

This is a conventional oven affair, 400 for 16-20 minutes. \u00a0 I’m not sure what “flatbread” refers to these days, there are so many products which use it as a descriptor. \u00a0In the case of this pizza, its a square pie, which a slightly thicker crust than is what is generally offered as “thin crust” pizzas. \u00a0In other words, for the frozen pizza industry, I would call this a fairly standard thickness.<\/p>\n

The sauce is slightly sweeter. \u00a0Toppings are adequate. Overall, to me, the flavor and texture is slightly better than the average “value brand” frozen pie, like Tony’s or Totino’s.<\/p>\n

It’s an “OK” product and a relatively good value when priced right.<\/p>\n

Below are pix of the unbaked pie, and the finished from the oven pizza.<\/p>\n

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Culinary Circle is a private label brand from manufacturer Richelieu Foods. \u00a0Products are marketed in a large variety of grocery chains, including Super Valu, Albertsons, Cub, and Shaws. Richelieu dates back to 1862, and for the first 100 years or so, was primarily known as a packager of salad dressings and sauces. \u00a0Diversification came with… Continue reading Culinary Circle Flatbread Crust 3 Meat Pizza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16,22],"tags":[457,1117,1500,1727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}