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How Scott's Pizza Tour Started by Pizza Therapy

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Scott Weiner is a pizza fanatic. He loves his pizza so much, he diecided to turn pizza into a business. Now he offers pizza tours: According to his website: The best way to enjoy New York is by walking its streets, but the only way to taste New York is by eating its pizza. You can do both with a NYC Pizza Walk! By 1900, several "Little Italies" spotted New York's five boroughs but the most famous remains in Manhattan's Lower East Side. It was here that new citizens would settle, as it was the first bit of land many would touch after a long immigration process at Ellis Island. The streets once overflowed with peddlers and fruit carts as the tenement buildings teemed with the disillusioned, transplanted from home and in search of a better life. It was here that a peasants' meal called "pizza" made its debut in America. The NYC Pizza Walk focuses on pizza from a historical perspective. We'll start at America's oldest pizzeria and continue ...

Pizza Tours: On the Pizza Road with Scott Wiener, Part 1

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For this leg of The Pizza Therapy East Coast Pizza Tour 2009 we headed to New York to sample some of the World's Best Pizza . We hopped a train and headed to Spring Street to hook up with Scott Wiener, host of Scott's Pizza Tours . What can you say about a kid from New Jersey who has a passion for all things pizza, and in particular New York pizza? You gotta love the guy. He has the heart of pizza. He has energy. He tells great stories. He has done his homework. He even has a pizza pen. Scott truly loves sharing all he knows about pizza. I immediately connected with him. How could I help it. He is my pizza brother from a different mother. The tour began at the exact spot where pizza started in America. The home of the original location of Lombardi's pizza . ( Albert's Side Bar: For more information on the history of Pizza, please check out Legends of Pizza, Volume 3, The Lost Interviews of Evelyn Sloman Parts 1 and 2, here .) We started our trek, by heading to an Ita...