nbLwT Wrote:
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> elihu Wrote:
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> > New Haven, the town of my birth, is split into
> two
> > camps. Pepe's fans and Sally's fans.
> >
> For us non-Yalies, what distinguishes "New Haven"
> pizza from other varieties?
"American pizzerias generally consider a plain pizza to be crust, tomato sauce, and mozzarella. In a New Haven-style pizzeria a "plain" pizza is crust, oregano, and tomato sauce with a little bit of grated pecorino romano cheese sprinkled on...What sets New Haven-style pizza apart from other styles is its unusually thin crust. Brick or occasionally high temperature gas oven cooking bakes the crust to a very crispy shell (often burnt black in spots."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven-style_pizza
http://petesapizza.com/apizza.html