"Pizza Bianca" is very common kind of pizza in Italy: no tomato, with mozzarella, sometimes ricotta; commonly offered with a variety of toppings, often prosciutto.
Very cool. Recently I was shown a hole-in-the-wall pizza joint in Shenzhen founded by a Canadian Chinese. It had the best dough in town as voted by a geographically disparate set of Italians, and IMHO beat (and conflicts with) the output of the dough method of my buddy who is a Parisian-trained patissier to a gulf state royal family, https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/life-changing-pizza-dou...
Focaccia is basically pizza without the sauce so I'm not sure if the clarification is helpful? Wikipedia claims that some places even call focaccia pizza bianca
I was just watching Ugly Delicious[0], and there is an episode about pizza. David Chang reveals that his FAVORITE pizza in the world is actually a thin crust dominos pizza with a strange array of toppings.
He shares a pie with a brooklyn based pizza chef and another guy, and while everyone agreed it was delicious, they said it wasn't pizza.
I live in NYC and eat a lot of pizza, and while I obviously wouldn't consider Dominos in the class of a Robertas, Emily, Di Fara, etc, whatever it is they're making is pretty damn good. And their numbers seem to indicate that as well.
I live right next to a Joe's pizza, often touted as one of the best classic American pizza slice in NYC. I would take a dominos deep dish or thin crust over Joe's any time.
Really good piece. It’s nice to see this aspect of “fine dining” becoming a lot more common at casual restaurants. Letting chefs actually do the chefing makes for by far the best food I’ve ever had. And you never have to worry that your dietary restrictions or the fact that you hate raw tomatoes means you’ll get a sub-par meal because the chef will JIT something with the same feel on the spot for you.
My favorite pizza place ever has a “Chef’s Choice” option where the chef has a conversation about what you like in a pizza and then bring you something unique, and amazingly delicious. I would go there every week if it wasn’t terrible for my health xD
There is also a relatively new series of Chef's Table: Pizza if you want to see some uncommon pizzas in a beautiful documentary.
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