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PIE IN THE SKY: NEW YORK RESTAURANT’S MENU FEATURES $1,000 PIZZA
NEW YORK – According to the report, New Yorkers can now find out what the world’s most expensive pizza tastes like. Manhattan restauranteur Nino Selimaj, now off ers a $1,000 pizza on his restaurant’s menu at Nino’s Bellisima. The article said, “The record-priced pie will be topped with creme fraiche, chives, eight ounces of four diff erent kinds of Petrossian caviar, four ounces of thinly sliced Maine lobster tail, salmon roe, and a little bit of spice with wasabi.” “Unlike your typical pizza, this one won’t be cooked, after all, that would spoil the fish. The 12-inch pie is sliced into four pieces, which comes to $250 per slice,” the report said. “Let them say I’m crazy,” Selimaj says. “But I believe in this product, and it’s gonna sell! My luxury pizza will become as famous as a night at the Waldorf Astoria. When Mr. Chow’s introduced upscale Asian Cuisine several years ago, people couldn’t imagine paying hundreds of dollars for Chinese food. Now upscale Asian cuisine is as common as New York hotdogs. Upscale pizza will be next,” Selimaj said.
CINCINNATI’S MOST FAMOUS PIZZA MAKER IS CITY’S NEW POLICE CHIEF
A Slice of the Pie: How to answer your phone! Page 36 The Pizza Press Monday June 4, 2007 A Division of PMQ’s Pizza Magazine 50 Cents Publisher: Stephen M. Green An article from news.enquirer.com said, “Buddy LaRosa is not sure what being “Chief for a Day” will entail, but he’s planning on wearing a tie in case he gets called into offi cial meetings. He’s looking forward to meeting City Manager Milton Dohoney.” LaRosa’s pizza founder said in the article, “It’s just an honor. I’ve lived and worked in this city my whole life. I’m really looking forward to it.” The report stated: “His favorite television is Court TV. He once considered being a police offi cer or fi refi ghter, he said, but was rejected from both because he’s only 5 feet, 6 inches tall.” The article said LaRosa gets to be Chief for a Day after winning the bid at a charity auction for around $1,000.
PIZZA FUSION ADDRESSING GLUTEN-FREE NUTRITIONAL TREND
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - Organic pizza franchise Pizza Fusion is off ering glutenfree food and beer for followers of the latest gluten-free diet trend. The wheatfree or gluten-free diet is the fastest growing nutritional trend, popular among individuals with celiac disease. “We have a loyal following from the gluten-free community who frequent our stores,” Vaughan Lazar, co-proprietor of Pizza Fusion explains. “I’ve personally met a number of people affl icted with celiac disease who haven’t eaten pizza in years and some who’ve never even had pizza. I always enjoy seeing the look on their face when they discover they can enjoy fresh cooked pizza again.” “I’ve had celiac disease since I was 18, so I know what I’m missing,” M. Margolis, a lawyer from Fort Lauderdale, states. “Until Pizza Fusion, I was forced to settle for frozen pizzas. Now, I can eat hot, fresh made pizza again, like I used to enjoy so much. Celiac suff erers now have a reason to smile, especially on football Sundays.” All of Pizza Fusion’s pizzas are available gluten-free. Pizza Fusion also serves Redbridge, a new gluten-free beer by Anheuser-Busch.
PIZZERIA TURNED COCAINE SHOP BUSTED!!!
According to a report from news.bostonherald.com, “The dough wasn’t the only thing fl ying at a Boston pizzeria as more customers came through the doors seeking a drug high than a pizza pie, cops say.” The article said, “Police knew they were on a roll yesterday when they went to the owner’s Revere house, shook an industrial-sized can of Al Dente sauce, and it sounded more like a baby’s rattle than tomato paste.” According to the report, “They punctured the can and said it was fi lled with coff ee grounds, masking the smell of the 2.2 pounds of cocaine inside.” The article stated: “Waving that six-pound can in a Chelsea courtroom, Suff olk County Assistant District Attorney Dean Mazzone, chief of the narcotics unit, said in the report, ‘The idea that a kilo of cocaine would be inside a sealed gravy can shows the sophisticated level of this dealer.’”