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Pizza Vending Machines Come and Go...But the Pie-O-Matic will live forever... Marty sent me the following article from the New York Times about Pizza Vending Machines in Italy. "Is Europe bringing back the automat? Claudio Torghele hopes so. Over the last decade, Mr. Torghele, 56, an entrepreneur in this northern Italian city who first made money selling pasta in California, has developed a vending machine that cooks pizza. The machine does not just slip a frozen pizza into a microwave. It actually whips up flour, water, tomato sauce and fresh ingredients to produce a piping hot pizza in about three minutes..." The article goes on to explain how through various testing different devices the developers of Let's Pizza  were able to create a viable machine that will actually make pizzas... You can read the entire article here . According to the Let's Pizza Website : Let's Pizza is the only machine able to create pizza by kneading it on the spot and add...

Noted pizzaiolo Dick Cami shares the following pizza tale, exclusively for The Pizza Therapy Pizza Blog : Hiya Albert...here's a story that happened to me when there were only about four or five pizzeria's in the Bronx...that's going way back: White Pie We opened the Daiquiri Palace about twenty two years ago in Palma, Majorca and my partner's son Gil Davis runs it now as a seasonal business, besides daiquiri’s we serve fresh made pizza’s on the beach. I'm a transplanted New Yorker that moved to Miami in '59 and I've been in the nightclub and restaurant business all my life, I now live Portland, Oregon My grandfather was a chef who came over from Faenza, Italy to work at the Ritz Hotel in New York City in the early 1900’s and when he retired he still kept his hand in the business by making sauces for local restaurants in the upper Bronx and he also made a lot of specialties for Mercurio's market in Mount Vernon, an Italian specialty store. A...