Sunday, October 05, 2003


national pizza month & the comfy sofa

of course long-time readers know this is national pizza month. and today, as i was making pizza sauce, i switched out my usual 3 tablespoons red wine for vodka.

for some reason i feel lately that vodka is better in the sauce if you're topping with pepperoni. you might feel differently; but there it is.

since i'm a lover of the real neapolitan pizza, i'm not a big fan of most of what passes about town as the pie. but i'm interested to see the cult of pizza spread across the planet.

normally when i think malaysia, i think curry, and i am so wrong. i should be thinking pizza. the mumbai masala pizza with cauliflower, pumpkin, and indian spices would give those california pizzas a run for their money.

but then i should be wiser: a young japanese chef stunned italy recently by winning the neapolitan pizza-making prize.

it's-a one world after all -- soon we will be united not by fancy treaties or extra-governmental bodies, but by the passionate sway of good pizza and specialty coffee.

for example, the u.k. is definitely a former tea-drinking nation now reborn as a community of coffee-lovin' couch addicts.

and speaking of coffee, here's a great article on kona.

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