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Jon F. explains the best tip for cooking pizza. You need to heat your oven as hot as it will go for at least an hour. This is critical for making pizza. You Pizza Stone , needs at least an hour to be able to heat up to 500 degress F. Let me repeat that: your pizza stone needs to heat up at least an hour. Remember: Put the pizza stone in the oven first, then turn the oven on. Note that Jon F's oven goes to 550 degrees F. Jon states he wishes his oven heated up tp 900 degrees. You can find more pizza stone tips and tricks here: Pizza Therapy How to Use and Clean a Pizza Stone. Old Stone Oven 4467 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone

Making a good whole wheat pizza dough is difficult to say the least. Due to the nature of whole wheat flour, the entire process requires addiditonal hydration and patience. Even my friend Peter Reinhart explained. how difficult the entire step by step procedure of making whole wheat pizza dough can be. Our Whole Wheat expert Jon. F. seems to have this process down. Jon F.'s Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Ingredients: 3/4 cup King Arthur whole wheat flour or equiv. 3/4 cup King Arthur Unbleached white flour or equiv. 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon yeast 2/3 cup iced water Directions Mix all ingredients in a Kitchenaid mixer until  blended, (Recommend: KitchenAid KP26M1XNP Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixer, Nickel Pearl (See all Stand Mixers )   Knead mixture on floured board for a few minutes.  Put in oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap before putting in refrigerator for and 18 to 24 hour cold fermentation.  Take out about one ...

This video is a great historical slide show of pizza at the New York world's Fair 1964-1965. The opening lines in the video state this exhibit: "This is a pavillion of pleasure..." As you watch this video slide show you will hear a "beep" as each new slide is presented. This sound is what triggered the movement of the next slide. It is kind of irritating but necessary. But for the history of pizza this is a priceless show. This gives the history of pizza as seen through the eyes of: "The Pizza King: Mastro Pizza". During the New York world's Fair, pizza was not known as widely as it is now. Sure it was in New York, New Haven, Providence, Chicago, San Francisco, and other big cities with an Italian population. And that's where pizza stayed for a long time... Pizza was certainly not mainstream. This is a great video: THE Pizza King! MASTRO PIZZA '64-'65 NY Worlds Fair Video Frank (Mastro) Ferrentino, MD adds a descri...

Some people are visual learners.  They learn by seeing. There best way to learn is through watching something done. Some are auditory learners. These learners learn by hearing something. They learn best with audio tapes or by hearing a lecture. Others are tactile learners. These are hands on type of people and they learn best by doing it. For me? I learn best with a combination of all three. The best way for me to learn how to do something is to watch it, hear it and then do it. That's why I love Internet Videos as a way to how to learn different things. There are countless videos that will teach you to make pizza dough. Here are a number of Pizza Dough Videos from Bing: Check out these Pizza dough Videos from Bing, you will certainly learn how to make pizza dough. Pizza Therapy has a pizza dough video , but there are so many different options to making great dough. Choose the one that best fits your taste. pizza on earth, Albert Grande The Piz...

My Auntie Anna had so many specialties, but her calamari salad is one of my favorites. She had a heart of gold. She always needed to feed you when you visited...(That's the Italian way!) And you had to eat or she would be insulted!  You will always find this on her table next to her Sausage and Pepper Special ! Side Note: If you want to learn about Calamari, here is: Squid: The Definitive Guide Auntie Anna writes: "Some cooks add different spices, but I think it takes away from the savory taste of the squid. As you know by now, I'm a Plain-Jane!" Sorry, Auntie Anna, you were far from plain! I miss you very much! Ingredients 1 lb. of squid  (including tentacles) 1/8 Cup of vinegar 1/4 Cup of Olive Oil salt and pepper to taste A dash of red hot pepper! Directions Cut up squid into bite size pieces and simmer under 5 minutes in about a pint of water.  Do Not Boil! Add a dash of vinegar to tenderize. If cooked to long, it will get tough. Cool and s...

 Meryl shows us how to create a perfect pie using an olive tapanade. This is a fairly easy pizza to recreate. You will be using ingredients that are available anywhere. 1) Open can of olives and drain 2) Put olives in food processor 3) Add 2-3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil. 4) Add 1 Teaspoon of minced garlic 5) Lemon Zest 6) Pulse ingredients in Food Processor 7) Make dough for one pizza. 8) Stretch out dough 9) Spread Tapanade on top of dough 10) Add cheese (Assagio, Parmesan, Mozzarella combination or your choice.) 11) Top with rosemary and / or your favorite spices. 12) Cook in a pre-heated oven (500+ F.) oven for 8-10 minutes or until crust is brown. If you love olives, think about:                                    

Jeff Orlick loves pizza. As he explains: "Square, regular, or by the personal size, I love them all". To show his ultimate affection for America's favorite food, he created the ultimate pizza app. It's called  "Real Pizza in NYC".   And it is an amazing refernce guide for anyone who ever searched for great pizza in The City. Not only does Orlick list dozens of great pizzerias, in New York, he also references them with categories and cross categories. For example you can search pizza by the borough (location), oven,  style, tour, Godfather's of pizza and Unique New York. You can also highlight your own personal favorites and save them in your own category. The reviews are biased (of course) but all inclusive. No pizza box is left unopened. He covers Antonio's , Armando's , Keste' , Deninio's Gennaro's and Lombardi's . Find Joe and Pat's , John's of Bleeker Street, Totonno's , Nick's Pizza , Paulie Gee...