Comments on Emes Ve-Pshara: In Search of a Good Pizza

Oy! It should, of course, be "Emes uFshara."

2006-03-15T02:30:00.000-08:00

Oy! It should, of course, be "Emes uFshara."

Oh, man. This is great!!!Shkoiach.

2006-03-14T21:49:00.000-08:00

Oh, man. This is great!!!

Shkoiach.

Actually, Pizza dough was the original Matzah. It ...

2006-03-13T17:56:00.000-08:00

Actually, Pizza dough was the original Matzah. It is used until this day by Sefardim.

"but more worldly friends have told me that's the ...

2006-03-13T01:41:00.000-08:00

"but more worldly friends have told me that's the real thing (not Coke)."

it's not! Pizza was just leftover bread dough that was rolled flat and made differently in different areas of italy. (No rolled crust for this reason). Very similar to foccaccia.

hILARIOUS.Harry you are a great sport.And thanks f...

2006-03-10T04:14:00.000-08:00

hILARIOUS.
Harry you are a great sport.And thanks for the tip-or the crust.

True Centrist Pizza is a living role model for ho...

2006-03-09T14:33:00.000-08:00

True Centrist Pizza is a living role model for how pizza should be made.

Truer words were never spoken. I have been to many fine Pizza establishments. Unfortunately none of them compare to my own home made super secret Centrist recipe.

I wasn’t always such a Pizza expert. But necessity is the mother of invention and I just HAD to learn because in all of my journeys throughout Boro Park, I never found anything but Charedi Pizzas. No Deep dish... No (fake) Pepperoni Pizza, no MO-Lite Pizza.... and certainly no Centrist Pizza. What’s a growing 59 year old to do? All I could find was this really Greasy Charedi stuff. It is a Charedi conspiracy. It’s probably because they have all the great Mechanchim!

So I decided to learn how to make really good Centrist Pizza from my good friend Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. He told me the secret recipe.
Because we Centrists are not insular I will share it with my fellow blogger, Emes Ve-Pshara who has graced us with this beautiful and heartwarming post... and his devoted readers:

OK. Here's my Pizza recipe.

Ingredients:
1 pkg. Maccabee Pizza Bagels.
1 microwave oven.

Directions:
Open pkg.
Remove 1 pizza bagel
Stick in microwave.
Set for 1.5 minutes and press "start"

Take out and enjoy.

Hilarious!

2006-03-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

Hilarious!

LOL"So we once entered an upscale Italian restaura...

2006-03-09T07:25:00.000-08:00

LOL

"So we once entered an upscale Italian restaurant together and ordered a pizza. When the food finally arrived, it was obvious that the pizza sauce had not been spiced well. So what did my Rebbe do? Did he berate the staff as many intolerant so-called gedolim would have done? No, of course not. Instead, he looked up at the waiter and asked, "Could you please bring us some garlic?"

Priceless!

ah, you poor benighted FFBs. you've never had rea...

2006-03-09T06:55:00.000-08:00

ah, you poor benighted FFBs. you've never had real Italian pizza. It's not Chicago style (sorry Harry), it's not New York style, it's something else. Thin crust with no roll at the edge like American pizza, but tapering off to a crisp edge, with sauce or vegetables/cheese right up to the edge.

Of course, the only places I've had it have been Paris and Park Slope, but more worldly friends have told me that's the real thing (not Coke).

Keifer! Pizza crust must be as hard and crunchy a...

2006-03-09T06:21:00.000-08:00

Keifer! Pizza crust must be as hard and crunchy as possible (without being burnt, chas vesholeim), and not let the slice sag out of one's hand! I knew those "Centrists" were no good!