Pizza Bites: Is This City the Pizza Capital of America?
About this episode
The episode explores whether New Haven, Connecticut, is the true pizza capital of America, highlighting its unique pizza culture and rivalries.
In the third edition of Pizza Bites from Eating History, Adrienne and Stephen ask a big question: Is New Haven, Connecticut, the real pizza capital of America? Tune in to explore the intense family rivalries and unique coal-fired "apizza" that put this small city on the culinary map. In this episode: Why New Haven produces more elite pizza per capita than any other city in America The defining characteristics of coal-fired "apizza" (and how to properly pronounce it) The fierce, decades-long family rivalry between Frank Pepe's and Sally's Why a traditional New Haven plain pie often arrives without mozzarella cheese The delicious, rule-breaking innovation behind the famous white clam pizza
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