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Why I Need Your Help

Posted Wed, 2006-01-25 10:25 by tsliker

Have you ever been in a distant land and had a craving for some GOOD pizza ? I'm not talking about pizza from a chain restaurant or some kind of exotic pizza. I'm talking about real New York Style Pizza.

My hope is to provide a nation-wide directory of these places so that folks like you and I can rest easy when going to a distant town or city.

I don't know about you, but I've planned vacations around visiting a good pizza place. Does that make me crazy? Am I alone? Please help, by responding to this post, and letting me kn

Qualifier - Pizza By The Slice Availability (10%)

Posted Wed, 2006-01-25 10:18 by tsliker

Pretty much this disqualifies all chain pizza places except maybe Sbarro which is found in a lot of malls and airports. I grew up in New Jersey, where I could always grab a slice between meals, late at night, whatever. I went to college in South Carolina and I'll never forget my first night there, I was at orientation or something. I walked down to the closest pizza place to get a slice.

It was 1981, and the place was called Domino's, and I had never heard of it before. Little did I know it was a successful national chain. I went inside and asked for three slices. The person behi

Qualifier - Thin Crust Pizza (40%)

Posted Mon, 2006-01-23 01:32 by tsliker

This might seem redundant or overly obvious, but the place has got to have pizza that is made in the New York style, which to me means a thin crust. Ultimately it's all about the pizza, right?

This is where it gets kind of tough for me to put into words what makes it "New York" pizza. A lot of the chain pizzas have thin-crust, but does that make it New York style pizza? Definitely not. Now, I don't want to be too rough on the pizza chains, because there have been times and places where they were the only pizza I could get, and they came to my rescue. A day with chain-pizza is better tha

What Qualifies as New York Style Pizza?

Posted Sun, 2006-01-22 20:40 by tsliker

This can be a hotly debated topic, and can be very hard to quantify. Sometimes its easier to say what is NOT New York Style Pizza. For example: If it comes in a pan, it's not. If it is cooked on a conveyer belt, it's not. Sometimes it's best just to judge it the same way that the Supreme Court determines if something is pornographic. According to Justice Potter in 1964, "I won't attempt to define it further, but I know it when I see it."

Well, I know it when I see it, but I will go ahead and attempt to define it anyway. I know that my opinions may generate some controversy and maybe

NY Style Pizza and Ratings

Posted Sat, 2006-01-21 10:49 by tsliker

(Rankings are 0-100, with 100 being the best) (For more details on these places, visit the New York Pizza Finder site.)

Why do a New York Style Pizza Blog?

Posted Sat, 2006-01-21 05:00 by tsliker

Because I love the stuff and can't get enough of it. And twenty-five years ago I moved from New Jersey to South Carolina, and I can tell you there are times when the good stuff is hard to find.

So...

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