Can You Name Every Regional Style of Pizza (per Yahoo!)?

When I clicked on my browser I was greeted with a list of regional pizza styles courtesy of Yahoo! (arent they friendly) They listed 17 different types. Thougnts?

http://food.yahoo.com/blog/sliceamerica ... e-of-pizza

I've never heard anyone refer to "grandma-style" pizza, though truly, what my own Calabrese grandmother made was essentially a half-height version of the Sicilian square pan served at GNR Freddy's, so I at least buy it as "my grandma's-style."

As The Pizza Professor,* I strongly disagree with the characteriziation of Chicago style thin crust as "flaky...almost pastry-like." Most of the classics (Vito's and Nick's, Aurelio's, etc.) employ the same dough for other menu items, where it clearly has a yeasty bread profile, with no butter or real flake. I don't think even the seeping grease and sauce brings any pastry-like character to these doughs, and I think Joe Aurelio (PBUH) would have kicked anyone's ass what-a called his pizza "pastry." This debate usually leads to the recognition that it's pretty hard to pigeonhole the widely varying exemplars of Chicago neighborhood thin crust into one style anyway.

*although I need considerable help finding good thin crust in the Oak Park area - any recent suggestions?

Santander wrote:As The Pizza Professor,*

Pizza Professor,

Thank you for providing the link, I missed the article first time around.

Enjoy,
Gary

Santander wrote:I've never heard anyone refer to "grandma-style" pizza

Grandma Style is available at NY Slices in Highland Park. I havent tried it, but i saw it and thought it was a made up concoction.

NY Slices
1843 Second St
Highland Park, Il 60035
847-432-6970
http://www.nyslices.com/

iblock9 wrote:

Santander wrote:I've never heard anyone refer to "grandma-style" pizza

Grandma Style is available at NY Slices in Highland Park. I havent tried it, but i saw it and thought it was a made up concoction.

NY Slices
1843 Second St
Highland Park, Il 60035
847-432-6970
http://www.nyslices.com/

I don't know if it refers to a particular style or just a nickname for a specific combination at NY Slices. I had a slice there this past Friday, which was basically a bready-crusted, Sicilian-style pizza with smoked mozzarella, tomato, garlic and herbs. It was available either spicy (which was very spicy) or not. But again, it seemed to me more a nickname for the specific combo than for a specific style of pie.

=R=

ronnie_suburban wrote:

iblock9 wrote:

Santander wrote:I've never heard anyone refer to "grandma-style" pizza

Grandma Style is available at NY Slices in Highland Park. I havent tried it, but i saw it and thought it was a made up concoction.

I don't know if it refers to a particular style or just a nickname for a specific combination at NY Slices.

The phrase "grandma-style" is used generously in New York Magazine's "Best Square Pizza (2006)" review. I hadn't encountered it before the article in Slice.

On Long Island it's simply "Grandma's pizza", which you can get in any decent pizzaria, including Newsday's "Best of Long Island", Umberto's in New Hyde Park.

Geo
http://www.newsdayinteractive.com/proje ... index.html