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Neapolitan Pizza Master Enzo Coccia Loves Stringy Fior di Latte

Neapolitans may sing the praises of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP but mostly they eat fior di latte – mozzarella made from cow's milk – on their pizza. Any ambivalence about fior di latte , as opposed to buffalo mozzarella, might have something to do with...

Acme Coffee Cups: An Icon as Plain as Can Be

If there's a lesson to be learned from the Looney Tunes Road Runner animated cartoons it's this:A-C-M-E spells doom. To help catch his elusive prey Wile E. Coyote keeps putting his faith in the latest contraption manufactured by the Acme Corporation. The...

Da Michele’s Master Pizzaiolo Shows His Age

The very first pizza of PizzaTuesday Naples, the young&foodish group tour of the world's pizza capital, was shaped by the hands of Luigi Condurro at the legendary L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele. The master pizzaiolo lightly pinched the corners of the uncooked pizza...

For 3 Franco Pepe Pizzas, A Special Delivery

Forget the great operatic tenors of La Scala. No voice in all of Italy is so lyrical as that of a Pepe in Grani waiter serving you a Franco Pepe pizza. At this incomparable pizzeria in a hilltop village some 30 miles (50km) north of Naples, every pizza made by Pepe,...

Top 10 Reasons To Love the Salt Beef at Tongue & Brisket

[slider_pro id="60"] Tongue & Brisket, 24 Leather Lane, London EC1N 7SU (map)

Bleecker Street Triumphs with Blood and Guts at London Burger Bash Final

Zan Kaufman of Bleecker St Burger won the Final of the London Burger Bash on April 5th at Borough Market with a combination of blood and guts. The blood refers not to the oozy redness of her aged beef patties, cooked south of medium rare, but to the dried blood in the...

BurgerMonday Championship Tournament Draw

The names of 8 burger greats were drawn from a hat at the BurgerMonday Championship launch party on Monday April 14th to determine the match-ups in the opening round. All quarter-final and semi-final burger-offs in the #WimbledonOfBurgers are to take place at...

BurgerMonday Championship

The BurgerMonday Championship is the Wimbledon of burgers, a single-elimination tournament pitting 8 burgers greats – Almost Famous, Bleecker St Bleecker, Burger Bear, Disco Bistro, Dip & Flip, Elliot's Cafe, Hawksmoor, Honest Burgers – against one another in a...