Pizza Roundup

Price

If you haven’t heard, the price of pizza is going up. That’s the conclusion of Liam Quigley who has been tracking pizza slice prices for close to a decade. Prices are now topping $3.

Pepperoni

Toppings, in this economy? The most popular pizza topping is still pepperoni, despite the rise in popularity of Neapolitan-style pizza pies. This spicy sausage is an all-American invention, with inspiration from Italian immigrants. Check out my full history of Pepperoni here.

Giant Slices

The standard pizza slice is typically only inches long, cut from an eighteen inch pie. But that hasn’t stopped some people of dreaming bigger. Some jumbo slices can be twice that long, and super jumbo slices even larger (but not necessarily cut from a round pie). Check out how these slices measure up.

Calzone

Techincally, calzone’s are simply pizza’s folded in half. That doesn’t mean it’s folded the way New Yorker’s eat a slice, but instead, the whole thing is folded over itself. Ever wonder what calzones have in common with pants? Read the rest here.

Boston

Boston-style pizza tends to have a thicker crust than pizza in New York, but its not deep dish. Here’s a photo slice from Bova’s Bakery in the North End of Boston.

Hawaiian Pizza

Hawaiian pizza is actually from Canada, and the inventor was a Greek immigrant. Sam Panopoulos was on a boat that stopped at Naples on his way to Canada. Read the full history of Hawaiian pizza here.

French Bread Pizza

French Bread pizza is sometimes referred to as Ithaca-style pizza because an early iteration was invented by a food truck there. Read more about French Bread pizza here.

English Muffin Pizza

It seems like a simple idea: pizza, but on an English muffin. The marketing department at Hunt’s tomato sauce thought so too. Read more about thee history of English Muffin Pizza here.

Bagel Pizza

Nobody knows who invented the original bagel pizza. There is something of an East Coast / West Coast Rivalry between bakers who claim they invented the treat, but also a bakery in Ohio selling frozen bagel pizzas at the same time. More likely? It was confluence of cultures in the Lower East Side of New York City.