Posts Tagged ‘food writing’

Pizza Acrobats of 2011

The International Pizza Expo has got to be the biggest, baddest and most comprehensive pizza convention in the world. The International Pizza Challenge is well run and the list of competitors spans the globe which is daunting. So many great pizza professionals compete every year and will blow your mind (just when you think you’ve got the greatest pizza on the planet.)

Here is some of the great fun that occurs at this event. The World Pizza Games are the athletic portion of what we do every day. You don’t see any food critics here, just masters of the pizza industry. These pizza people will blow your mind with… well, let me show you instead of telling you…lets start with Japans representative to the pizza games.




The Agamemnon — Now That’s a Big Pie!

So, there I was. I cooked a pizza for my youngest son’s Valentine’s celebration at pre-school. As I took it to my four-door Nissan sedan, I realized I could not get it in. “Damn Agamemnon,” I said.

Pizza is not only the subject of my blog, but it is my life: traditional, Italian, French, Turkish, Lebanese and even Chinese pizza. I love the fact that I can support my family creating pizza and stuffed breads for my customers using grains, cheeses, cheese and protein from far away or just down the street.

That said, the bulk of the pizzas my company created last year are made in pans, the old fashioned way. They contain combinations using our organic pizza sauce on the 30 specialty pies on my menu or any funky combinations from the 53 toppings on our list. This year, my General Manager Joel Fair and I wanted to make something big.

Enter Agamemnon.  Here Joel makes one here from scratch for you.

I initaially put a bounty on the best name for this 28-inch pizza, but after two weeks and names like the “Osama Bin Laden” and the “Your Mom” (which I thought was very witty), I decided to name it after a Greek General killed by his wife.

Now it’s time to eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat….