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Pizza: Keste in the Village for Neopolitan Pizza

“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 [...]

Pizza Man: A Sad Night at Sal and Carmine’s

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 [...]

Sal the Pizza Maker of Sal and Carmine’s Dies

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 [...]