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Classic Italian Marinara Sauce

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Here is a very simple and classic Italian Marinara Sauce. Simply delicious. Chef Umberto Shows you the easy way to make your own Marinara Sauce.

101 Year Old Celebrates Birthday with Pizza

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You have to admire Sally Levy. Like all women she knows what she wants. And now that she turned 101, what she wants is pizza. "I love pizza," Levy explained. Sally Levy has pizza for her 101 birthday celebration Sally's "longtime friend, Filipo Tortora , transformed his White Plains Road restaurant, La Pentola , into a birthday paradise for Levy on her big day." You can read the rest of the story at the New York Daily News Website. Happy Birthday, Sally!

How to Make the Perfect Pizza Crust

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This video gives you easy step by step instructions on how to make pizza dough. This is educational as well as very hands on on. For this pizza dough you will be using 4 basic ingredients: flour, water, salt, yeast and oil. As with all pizza doughs, the oil is totally optional. The olive oil will give you a softer crust. For a harder crust you can entirely omit the oil. pizza on earth, Albert Grande The Pizza Promoter For more pizza magic...check out Pizza on the Grill >> Pizza on the Grill: 100 Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza & More

Jon F.'s Best Pizza Stone Pizza Tip

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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

Jon F.'s Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

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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 ...

Pizza At the New York World's Fair by Mastro Pizza: The Pizza King

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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...

How to Make Pizza Dough Videos

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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...