Word: pizzas
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...night I'm in a different place, and I wish I were eating a different kind of food, since I'm going to all this trouble getting on and off of planes. Chicago - I don't know what to eat in Chicago nowadays. They always tell you to eat pizza, which doesn...
...Fortunately for Kurlansky, there's a new guide to help people venture off the culinary highway. Written by foodie progressives who savor Chicago's pizza as well as its beef sandwiches and chicken Vesuvio and scads of old-school offerings across the country, Jane and Michael Stern's 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late refers not to a diminishing American landscape but to the limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans. It's a bucket list of restaurants serving local, often obscure dishes, ranked cheerily from best to almost best. The Sterns' nation...
...Kurlansky's America is vanishing and the Sterns' is still emerging, both describe a culinary landscape more fascinating than the hamburgers and pizza we're known for. It's the kind of dynamic cultural mash-up that occurred in Italy before each town's dishes were calcified into classics. While every highway Olive Garden and Chili's hinders that dynamism, local cuisine is not gone yet. "There is no national hot-dog chain," says Stern. "That's because people are so loyal to the hot dog with which they grew up." So maybe we're not quite Europe. That doesn...
...moment, Caporuscio is keeping his eye on the pies, but ultimately plans to offer 10-day, $4,000 pie-making courses for up-and-coming pizzaiouli. But until then, you'll have to make do with just being a customer of these new pizza pleasure dome, whose imagination and technique might actually outshine the competition back in Naples. "There are no shortcuts at work here," says Motorino's Palombino. "Pizza is now a far more serious food than it was in the past...
...weeks-old Keste Pizza and Vino in the West Village, easily the most orthodox of the city's new pizzerias, there are no distracting desserts - just old-fashioned pizza and wine. Owner Roberto Caporuscio is not merely a chef - he's the president of the American chapter of the Associazone Pizzaiouli Napoletana, which trains and certifies master pizza-makers. Unsurprisingly, Keste's pizzas are all-Italian - tomatoes, cheeses and flour from the homeland, slid for a minute each into a 1,000-degree volcanic stone oven. There are 18 Keste pies in all - including the Keste, a proscuitto-loaded extravaganza...