As a love of all things pizza I’m lucky to live right next to the pizza capitol of the world, New Haven. You may have noticed that a lot of the famous places (Pepe’s, Sally’s, Modern) all have “Apizza” on their name which locals know is produced “AH-BEETZ”. But why? In Italy where pizza first…
All this week I have tickets to Demi Lovato, coming to the Toyota Oakdale Theater on October 9th. Get my trivia question right first every day at 4pm to win tickets. Would you have known today’s? Today is National Pepperoni Pizza Day. Pepperoni was voted number 1 pizza topping Q: This is the number 1…
Every Tuesday Kevin talks all things food with Alex from CT FoodGirly. This week they tackled a topic near and dear to every Connecticut resident’s heart, pizza. We all know New Haven has the best pizza on the planet. Modern, Pepe’s, Sally’s, BAR, obviously are all excellent. But where can you find the best pizza OUTSIDE…
You may have see this horrific story last weekend of the car that crashed into a local playground, hitting a young 11-year-old boy who was swinging at the time. Now that the boy is thankfully recovering well and going to be just fine, police officers in Stamford wanted to meet him and doing something special.…
You might have seen this wild video that’s been going around of a New Haven based pizza truck getting into a rollover crash on 91 in Middletown/Cromwell last weekend. Big Green Truck Pizza is well know around Connecticut. You may have had their pizza at weddings, parties, various events around the state. An erratic driver…
New Haven is considered by many as the birthplace of American pizza. Back in the early 20th century pizza was always delivered. It started to become really popular in the 1910s. People would buy it on the street and deliver it to factories and famer’s markets. Frank Pepe in New Haven is credited as the…
Valentine’s Day coming up on Monday some people are getting an early head start on spreading the love. Like this one jewelry store in Pennsylvania who teamed up with a pizza place nearby to send 250 heart shaped pizzas to healthcare workers at a hospital in Philadelphia this week. The owner of the store said…
I’ve always though my whole life pepperoni was an Italian food… it’s actually not! WHAAAAAT?! Pepperoni is in fact an American food. Mind blown. In Italian, the word “peperoni” with one “P” is the word for bell peppers and there’s no salami type item named “pepperoni” with two “P’s” that is commonly used as a…
Big pizza news here in Connecticut this week! On Wednesday the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 131-9 to make pizza the “State Food”. I’d like to know what those 9 reps who voted against it had to say. Do they just hate pizza? I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like pizza. I did hear that…
Today’s mystery is pizza related. Why do we call the traditional style a “Margherita” pizza? There’s no tequila in it or anything, so why that term? It started back in the birthplace of pizza in the 1800s, Italy! The chef who invented a dish called ”Pizza Margherita,” did it to honor the Queen of Italy,…