(Paperback - English - 9780813558684)
Pizza is a $35 billion a year business, and nowhere is it taken more seriously than New York City. Journalist Peter Genovese surveys the city's pizza scene--the food, the business, the culture--by profiling pizza landmarks and personalities and rating pizzerias in all five boroughs. In this funny, fascinating book, Genovese explores the bloggers who write about New York pizza, the obsessive city dwellers who collect and analyze the delivery boxes, Mark Bello's school where students spend a day making pies from scratch, and Scott Wiener's pizza bus tours. Along the way, readers learn the history of legendary Totonno's on Coney Island (Zagat's number-one pizzeri ..