December 2007
23 posts
NOLA Pizza Joint to Ban HFCS From Its Products →
That’s New Orleans, Louisiana, and high fructose corn syrup, if you’re struggling with the alphabet soup above. The aptly named World’s Healthiest Pizza will get rid of the junktastic sweetener in its food and will discontinue serving drinks or anything else that uses it. Effective January 1. Nice move, World’s Healthiest! [Tip o’ the hat: Jenn Sit]
More LOLcat Pizza →
moar funny pictures
Burger King's Bacon Homestyle Melt vs. Wendy's... →
Or, ‘Cheesy Date: I’ll Melt With You’ In a week where I was trying hard to eat healthier, I supposedly mumbled “eat a cheesesteak” while napping. Fine, subconscious, you win. Well, you and the boy who’s been clamoring to try some recent limited-time fast food. He’s been hankering for one of those jalapeño cheddar melts that Wendy’s is advertising....
Burger Eye Candy →
A bee-yooo-tee-ful photo:
Behind the Whopper Freakout →
A Q&A with the ad agency creative directors behind Whopper Freakout. They used two real Burger Kings in Las Vegas, and the employees were actually actors trained to use the equipment at the King. The Q&A answers one nagging question I had about customers’ reactions and the fact that BK would even go for this stunt to begin with: We had a whole support system there to give people BK...
Peppe's Pizza & Panini →
Or, ‘This Is Where You’re Ordering Pizza From Now, Park Slope’
Peppe’s Pizza & Panini Address: 597 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215 (b/n 17th and 18th streets, Park Slope; map) Phone: 718-788-7333 Website: peppepizzapanini.com Oven Type: Gas-fired, steel-deck oven Hours: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily Payment: Cash and cards Price: $16 for large plain pie (18 inches); $12...
Papa John's Definition of 'Unlimited' →
Unlimited = five toppings.
No Whopper for You! Burger King 'Discontinues' Its... →
Usually, when the major chains try to get into the whole viral video thing, the results are lame, lame, lame. But, OMG, this Burger King video is pretty damn good. In it, they outfit a Burger King with hidden cameras, punk customers by claiming the Whopper has been discontinued, and then record the resulting freakouts. The also prank the customers by placing Wendy’s and McDonald’s...
Eat My Pix: White Rose System →
These were taken at White Rose System in Highland Park, New Jersey, over the weekend. Great burger often referred to as an oversize White Castle burger because of the cooked chopped onions and similar roll. VERY TASTY! —Rob K.
Lunch: New York Pizza Suprema →
New York Pizza Suprema calls this an “upside down pizza,” but it’s essentially a Sicilian slice that goes crust, cheese, sauce instead of crust, sauce, cheese. We had it for lunch today at SliceSerious Eats HQ.
Samurai Sam's →
Or, ‘The Things I Do for You’ When I told Adam I was stuck in jury duty, he said it might be a good opportunity to taste-test a burger I wouldn’t otherwise encounter. So when I saw five or six signs proclaiming “Teriyaki Burger!” I felt I had to try it. And, look, I knew what I was getting into. I’d never eaten at (or even seen) a Samurai Sam’s before,...
A McDonald's Pizza Happy Birthday →
Subject: Thanks for the inspiration
After viewing the image on your site a while back of the McDonald’s pizza, I forwarded it to my boyfriend for what I thought would be a laugh. He described it as the most amazing thing ever and requested it for his birthday. We did our best to recreate. —Lisa B.
Shenanigans on 27th Street →
Roma Pizza in better days, before it unexpectedly closed last week.
Last week saw the passing of Roma Pizza on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. I’m probably speaking for everyone on the block—which is home to FIT and the Serious Eats/Slice office—when I say it was an unexpected event. One evening, we were buying slices there for a quick dinner, and the next morning the...
Dear Slice: Christmas Pizza at Santacon →
This was rather early in the day; I have more pizza and Santa pix when the streets were thronged with (3,000!) Santas. However, I was shooting film today; the other rolls won’t go in for a day or two. Deck the halls with mozzarella!
Cheers,
Barbara
Dear Barbara,
If you get those rolls processed and have some more good Santacon pix on it, feel free to send them in! This is great. Viva...
A Hamburger Today-Serious Eats Gift Guide →
Just in time for the end of Hanukkah, here’s the A Hamburger Today Gift Guide: a timely list of burger-themed effluvia for your meat-loving friends and family. Start here and you’re sure to find something for the hamburger lover in your life, whether they cook at home, outside, or not at all.
Hanukkah Pie →
From Dr. Baloney on Flickr: “Jessie made these amazing pizza slices for me for Hanukkah.” In the 7 and 10 o’clock positions, pineapple. In the 1 and 8 o’clock positions, Margherita slices. In the 4 and 11 positions, peppers. And onions, and the other two, I’m assuming, are plain slices. Very nice, Jessie! Is that knitting or crochet?
Menu for Hope 4: NYC Guided Pizza Tour for 4, UE19 →
Each year, the Menu for Hope charity raffle brings together food bloggers worldwide in the fight against hunger. Bloggers offer prizes that readers may buy virtual raffle tickets to win, with the proceeds going to the U.N. World Food Program. Slice is offering the following prize, which you may buy a ticket for at this link: firstgiving.com/menuforhope4. (Tickets cost $10 each, and you may buy as...
Chuck McCann Makes Pizza →
Who’s Chuck McCann? Here’s his bio.
Link: Chuck McCann 05 - “Pizza Face” [YouTube]
Bobby Flay Launching Burger Chain →
From retail real estate site GlobeSt.com: “Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is launching an upscale hamburger chain called Bobby’s Burger Palace, his business partner revealed … ” The story says one is under development in New Jersey and another will open in a Long Island, New York, mall, with five to ten new locations a year.
Serious Eats First Anniversary Today →
Warning: Nonpizza content follows. Serious Eats, Slice’s post-merger corporate parent, is now one year old. I’ve been working at Serious Eats as managing editor since shortly before the site launched, and it’s been quite a year. Here’s to many more!
Slice–Serious Eats Gift Guide: Pizza-Making... →
Ladies and gentlemen, I have an affliction known as pizzamania. It’s a largely manageable condition that at times flares up and inspires flights of fancy that preoccupy my cheese-addled brain. During one particularly intractable bout, I had the crazy notion that I’d turn my home into a sort of clandestine pizzeria, serving up small pies to guests who would, of course, be seated at...
Pizza Scoresheets: Criteria for Judging Pies →
Pizza Quest Scoresheet, on Google Docs So the Friday after Thanksgiving, Ed Levine emails me some message about how he’s going a pizza tour with Bob Kinkead (of Kinkead’s in D.C.) and Mark Furstenberg (founder of the BreadLine and now a baking consultant and author). Ed’s all like, “These guys are totally serious about pizza and bread. We’re going to Franny’s...
How to Make a Kimchi Pizza →
A reader emailed with this link: “I challenge you to make this pizza and not say it’s the spiciest pizza you’ve ever had.” The video’s a bit long, but if you’ve been looking to make a kimchi-topped pizza—and, seriously, who hasn’t?—this is your how-to. Link: Chuncheon-Style Kimchi Pizza [YouTube]
