It’s possible to stumble on great pizza in the most unexpected places. Take Mattituck on Long Island’s North Fork where we lucked into The Sicilian and its outstanding pies.
Mattituck is situated in the middle of Long Island’s North Fork. Abundant vineyards? Check. Farmstands brimming with fresh-pick produce? Check. The shimmering waters of the Peconic? Check.
But [...]
“How do you like the pizza?” asked the hot Italian guy sitting next to me after we had devoured our luscious pie at Keste, the Neopolitan pizza joint in the Village. When I told
him I thought the topping was delicious, but objected to the soggy crust, he explained that Keste’s crust is prepared just the [...]
Last night, we walked up to Sal and Carmine’s to get a pizza.The gloomy weather matched Carmine’s mood. It was so sad to see the legendary pizza man, minus longtime partner Sal, standing all by himself in his pizza joint, gazing mournfully out the shop’s window fronting Broadway.
Asked about the circumstances surrounding Sal’s death in [...]
Ed Levine of Serious Eats writes a loving tribute to pizza maker Sal Malanga, who died recently. As Levine points out, Sal was one of New York’s great pizza men.
Sal’s legacy will live on, says Levine:
I hailed a cab to take my pizza home. My son, Will, was watching the Mets-Yankees game. We each put [...]
Is the classic New York pizza slice being pushed aside by gourmet pies? That’s what Newsweek reports in a recent article. New York Magazine disagrees, and so do I.
As proof, I give you the humble slice that can be had from Rose’s Pizza, a narrow, bustling joint located along the cavernous Long Island Railroad concourse [...]
