Pizzalore

Henry Rollins defends pizza lovers of the USA. The legendary punk and front man of Black Flag weighs in on pizza, politics, war, Democrats, Republicans and Tea Partiers and more in this interview.   Particularly interesting is his view on the troubles of pizza lovers in this country.  "War or pizza? Hmmmm, I think most people are going for pizza. But somehow that is politicized into 'If you like pizza you're weak on defense. If you like pizza you love the Taliban and are a Communist' and that's where it ends." These outlandish and unfounded allegations will NOT be tolerated by the pizza-loving patriots of this country! Thank you Mr. Rollins for pointing out that pizza is a much more appetizing option than war, bullshit and sickening health-care system. Props to my friend Will for the heads up on this one.

Image: Tom Mason What a silly headline, but it is true. The New York Times' Michael Moss recently exposed some rather backwards happenings in the US Department of Agriculture . An entity called Dairy Management Inc. has been created as a marketing program within the USDA with the goal to promote and sell cheese products. Lots of people like extra cheese, so what's the problem?  Well the problem is that cheese is often high in saturated fat and calories which can contribute to heart disease and obesity, and these promotions are happening along side the First Lady and the USDA's federal campaign to reduce obesity and promote healthy eating. In addition to this federal funding is being spent on these multi-million dollar corporations for product development and for ad campaigns. In the USDA's Path to Personal Health brochure they even specifically suggest ordering pizza with half the cheese.  Image: Nutri-Shun Corp Comics Dairy Management has been in cahoots with...

Ahhhhh.  I don't get "it."

My good friend Earl Yevak is stationed in Iraq right now but he recently went on vacation in Italy and had some pizza at a place in Palermo called SciuScià . That means "shoeshine" in Italiano! I know Earl loves pizza and I'm looking forward to his posts. -Lauren Hello. Or maybe I should say "Ciao!?" Either way, greetings greetings. Lauren V. is one of my great friends, who I love dearly.  Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to visit a few European Countries, and eat a lot of really great food. Since I was traveling on a budget my diet consisted mainly of pizza!! I was emailing back and forth with Lauren about some of the better places to visit while I was there, and also the better spots to eat. Although I wasn't able to make it to Naples, the birth place of pizza (*Lauren and I had a conversation earlier today about how there actually is a big debate that pizza originated in the middle east somewhere, but we won't get into that now), I was ...

My friend Will and I entered a Little Caesars Halloween Costume Contest. Read more about it on Slice. This is our entry:

Did you know that Halloween is one of the busiest nights of the year for pizza delivery? Sylvia Rector just wrote all about it in the Detroit Free Press . I hope my pal, A Pizza Girl , is hanging in there. There are lot of strange types about on Halloween, lots of nutters. Happy Halloween everyone!

Check out this cute snack from Ellen Jacob and The Examiner. They are perfect for a Halloween snack. This is a great use of string cheese sticks too. Ingredients • English muffins • Pizza sauce • Black olives • Scallions • Red or green pepper • Cheese sticks or slices Instructions 1. Heat the oven to 350º F. For each mummy, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin (toast it first, if you like). 2. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils. 3. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy’s wrappings. 4. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.

Appy Entertainment has released a new game called  Zombie Pizza. For just $0.99 you can dish up brain and eyeball pizza to hungry zombies. The animations look great and I think this is a must have for pizza lovers this Halloween. You can download it at from the App store on iTunes or check it out at the APPY website .

Victoria Aracri Deroche is a pizza fanatic from Richmond and blogger/business owner of Pizza Tonight RVA Sean Taylor is an actor, comedian and pizza fanatic from New York who also blogs and commits to eating pizza every day for the month of October (National Pizza Month). Of course Paulie Gee's is one of  Brooklyn's newest Neapolitan style pizzerias owned by the one and only Paulie Gee . <3 Some people are just so silly.

My  best bud  Kelly posted this ridiculous necklace on my Facebook page. It is a 14K yellow gold slice with a couple of 3mm rubies for pepperoni. ALSO  The Richmond Tri-Cities area Little Caesars' are having a Halloween Costume Contest. the prize is FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR! So of course my friend Will and I are diligently working on a pizza costume to blow all the other costumes our of the water! I'll follow  up with results after we win on  November 1.  

My friend Harris (AKA Saikyo78 who is also a Pizzalicious contributor ) found this crazy link explaining how and more importantly why Gary Busey and the rest of these kunckle heads are Pizzalicious. Apparently the men of the new season of Celebrity Apprentice were slinging pies at New York location of the small Famous Famiglia Pizza chain. Supposedly it was for charity, so, good for them.  From Moviefone : (Gary) Busey, Lil Jon and country star John Rich roved the streets outside hoping to get customers, who were looking to come in from the miserable weather outside. 'Partridge Family' member David Cassidy , baseball player Jose Canseco , 'Sugar Ray' frontman Mark McGrath and 'Survivor' winner Richard Hatch manned the ovens at Famous Famiglia Pizzeria, while Meat Loaf tended to the register. No word on what the female members of this year's cast were doing, but it was probably something quiet and unassuming.

My friend Alyssa posted this cute link to a ton of really interesting pizza box art . Of course I told her that many of them were in the collection of Scott Wiener of Scott's Pizza Tours. Check out this really cute one from Jojo's Pizza Inn as photographed by Jimmy Tyler.

Went on an outdoors adventure with some friends - a hike-in cabin in the mountains. We love to eat well, so we adapted our grilled pizza for the campfire. It was a lot different than we expected, here are some tips we learned to help your next back country adventure be as delicious as the scenery: (photo by Phillip Stearns) The Fire: our campsite had a grill rack that swung over the firepit- totally necessary for the pizza. The guys stoked the fire: hot coals, not flames, were what we needed, & it needed TLC to get there. The fire was a mix of fir & birch, downed wood from the area. The Crust : Trader Joe's premade white pizza crust. This easy cheat was a big help in the prep, thou one crust, stretched into two pies, was not enough food for four hungry hikers. Next time I'll bring two. Unlike in the oven or on the more even fire of the grill, we found the crust needed to be a lot thicker than normal to cook well. The first pie, a thin one, was a somewhat burn...

I wonder if Captain Picard ends every call to the pizza parlor with "That's an order!" I would eat pizza with Picard any day of the week. OMG. This is available for you to buy for me at Think Geek.

Since I was already trolling the icanhascheezburger universe yesterday I thought I would pop over to Epicute and see what they had going on with their pizza game. It isn't as tight as I had hoped for but there were some cute posts. Exhibit A: Pizza Cats So cute! Exhibit B: Pizza Hearts This is what my heart looks like for sure.

I saw these over at the Icanhascheezburger empire. Apparently these are actual quotes from Bieber's new autobiography. LOL!

My mom and older sister are in Vancouver, BC, Canada right now and are looking for a good pizza spot no doubt. I hope they find one and blog it when they get back! I was looking for recommendations on Slice and I came across this wacky oven that was originally posted on the blog, This Is Pizza . I have just added it to the list of pizzalicious links. This impressive oven is located in Marcello pizzeria in Vancouver. Their Neapolitan style wood-burning oven is in the shape of a sun with a face. I hope Mom and Rose get a chance to check it out. Photo: Adam Lindsley, This is Pizza .

I have spent the better part of the last month or so raising money for the Wayside Center For Popular Education . As part of their first annual fundraiser, The Wayside Cup the Center invited people to form teams and find creative ways to raise money and then participate in a field day event. The team with the most points would win. I formed Team Totally Awesome, and I have to say we were off to a great start. As team captain I pledged to raise $1000 and we made over $500 at our first fund raising event- a Cut-A-Thon hosted by the lovely ladies at Salon Bleu in Richmond. Next we had a very successful bake sale at the South of the James Farmer's Market. We parked our bake sale boat right next to our friends and teammates from Root Force Collective Farm. It was another success and that night we celebrated at the benefit show where B.Ultra & Basic (pictured), Pixeltank , and El Radon played their amazing music. Some very skilled hula hoopers from RVA HoOp Lovers also perform...

By: Videorose Pizzamoto is a mobile pizza truck in Brooklyn, NY. I've been meaning to try PizzaMoto when I see it around the city, at assorted street fairs , and finally got my chance on overcast Sunday's Atlantic Antic. It was definitely the highlight of the Antic (or maybe second to the vintage glass earrings I bought); hands down the best street pizza I've eaten. They bravely cart around a wood-fired oven , and they're slinging pizza into it as fast as they can to accommodate the steady line. Their $4 slices only come in 'plain', or it's perhaps a margherita? Some kind of delicious fresh mozz put raw in chunks on the pie that oozes across once baked, and a nicely tart and fresh-tasting tomato sauce . Best, once out of the oven, they finish it with a splash of olive oil ('Mmmm, drizzle" said the guy in line behind me). I top it with some oregano and we're good to go, fortified to survive the rest of the fair. It's no small fe...

Google's new Google Mobile commercial is very long and very pizzalicious. In true Google fashion there are hidden links and Easter eggs in this 10 minute long commercial. Plus towards the end he finally gets something to eat, but it isn't what you're expecting. So I guess that is Google making a joke. To see the hidden surprises, click on: basketball 00:42 azzip 01:21 The area to the right 01:47 torture machine (joke) on the left 03:27 the panel on the left 04:38 horse 05:50 Godzilla 06:34 face AND left arm of Santa Claus 07:59 Toast 09:12

The Olsen Twins appear in this super creepy screwed up version of their Pizza Song.

Oh my gosh, watching this commercial made me almost have a heart attack. Then ending is great though.

This is a long form commercial for Pizza La  Pizza in Japan. Like most pizza commercials from Japan it is really weird. I don't speak Japanese and I couldn't find a version with subtitles. But from the looks of it, they start in Spain and end up in Russia....

I should have blogged this a long time ago.  No that is not a tower of empty pizza boxes ready to be filled with hot pies for deliveries. That is a tower of empty pizza boxes, smeared with sauce and cheese remains of pies devoured by my friend Will. Will used to have a real problem with $5 Hot and Ready pizza. What started out as garbage by the back door grew into a hilarious inside joke between Will and his stomach. What is really wild is that this is only half of the stack-- about 50 boxes. Luckily I think Will has sort of chilled with the cardboard crusty stuff, and got rid of the tower. However, those cheap pizzas provided much needed fuel for making his new album. Which you can listen to here: Behind The Black Curtain It Moves by B.Ultra&Basic

Aw, here we go! Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery / Co. fame showed the readers of New York magazine how a he makes a pizza Mergherita a while back. Be still my heart! This handsome pizzaiolo/baker/writer/sculptor can make me a pizza any day of the week, just shape it like a heart if you're into it Jim. You know what I'm sayin'. ;-) <3

I want to introduce my pal Melissa to you. She is one pizzalicious babe and I know she will have a lot of great posts and amazing photos to add to this blog. Welcome Melizza! (See what I did there?)  We're so glad to have you on board. -Lauren My name is Melissa, and I am a friend of Lauren’s who is going to be contributing to this blog from time to time. I was giddy when she asked me; I hadn't thought about starting my own pizza blog but I am so thrilled to document my adventures on this site! I never ate pizza until a few years ago, as I was not able to stomach cheese. Thankfully my tastes changed and I’ve been pleased to have some really amazing pizza in Richmond, as well as other parts of the country. I don’t cook, but I love baking, especially bread, so pizza-making came naturally to me. I like to adjust ingredients and rises with the dough to get different flavors and try different temperatures to see what gives me the most pleasing crust. I recently got married an...