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Pizza, A Slice of Heaven
Ed Levine
A Slice of Heaven tackles the profound questions and never-ending debates that invariably come up whenever the subject of pizza is brought up in polite company.
The Ultimate Pizza Guide and Companion
Universe
February 2005
320 pages ISBN: 0789312050 Hardcover
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Pizza is the single most popular food in the world, and
wherever you go in America you can always find it. In fact,
we consume 33 billion dollars worth of pizza annually from
the 63,873 pizzerias in America. That's a lot of slices.
This year's pizza centennial is a milestone laid claim to
by Lombardi's Pizza, which opened its doors in New York in
1905. Celebrating this anniversary is Ed Levine's A
Slice of Heaven: The Ultimate Pizza Guide and
Companion, in which Levine and some of America's best
writers and cartoonists set out to answer every cosmic
question involving this beloved food: Is Chicago pizza
really more of a casserole? What makes New York pizza so
good? Is the pizza in New Haven better than anything found
in Naples? Is the best pizzeria in the world found in
Phoenix, Arizona? What and where is the Pizza Belt? How
good can homemade pizza be? Why was Nora Ephron petrified
that her very first date would take her to a pizzeria? How
did someone named Fats Goldberg end up being New York's
preeminent thick-crust pizza maker? Is there an American
pizza aesthetic? How does one go about judging pizza? Is
there such a thing as a good frozen pizza? All these
questions and more will be answered in A Slice of Heaven by
Levine, along with some of his favorite writers, including,
among others, Calvin Trillin, Ruth Reichl, Roy Blount, Jr.,
Arthur Schwartz, Mario Batali, Jeffrey Steingarten, and
Eric Asimov. A Slice of Heaven tackles the profound
questions and never-ending debates that invariably come up
whenever the subject of pizza is brought up in polite
company.
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