Monday, June 27, 2005

Pizza Binge Finale

Posted by Trott

Photo by Steve Ledzian

Day 3: Pauline's Pizza served delicious pizza with fresh organic toppings and a cornmeal crust. Blah blah blah. You either already knew that, or you couldn't care less. Anyway, I've determined that the secret to many a great pizza is the cornmeal crust. (There was cornmeal in the crust at Little Star, too.)

More important than the pizza itself, a great number of friends came out to celebrate my birthday. This had two exciting results:
  1. Everyone paid for my dinner. It didn't cost me a dime. Score!
  2. One friend brought an ex-Lemonhead who expressed an appreciation for the general concept of Steak House! (The Musical). Tonight, I will be cooking with lemons, so this means a lot to me.
Day 4: A16 served delicious pizza with sustainably farmed toppings and an authentic Italian-style thin crust. Et cetera. You get the idea. No cornmeal crust this time, but it didn't matter. It was great.

More important than the pizza itself, a small number of friends came out to celebrate my birthday. This had two important results:
  1. Everyone paid for my dinner. It didn't cost me a nickel. Score!
  2. None of my friends had ever been to the Wave Organ, so we walked over there. The Wave Organ is a neat spot, although I've never heard it make sounds other than faint tones. But I was amused by the sign about volleyball-playing that we saw on the way there. It seemed funnier and more bizarre then than it does right now.

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2 Comments:

 Doron Abrahami said...

When you say "cornmeal crust" do you mean a flour crust dotted with cornmeal (used in the biz to make it easier to manipulate the pizza), or do you mean a cornbread-like crust? I hope you mean the former.

Also, what passes for good Italian food outside of Italy, New York, and/or Chicago, isn't necessarily good or Italian. I've experienced this in numerous American cities, Canadian cities, Israeli cities, and across Europe. Seems that people think if you huck some tomatoes on some dough "it'sa Italian!"

7:31 AM, June 28, 2005
 Trott said...

Dotted, but dotted heavily. It was definitely not cornbread-like. But the cornmeal added a lot of texture.

9:12 AM, June 28, 2005

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