In the May issue, Sarah Colombo talks about methods of dough forming, and gives a brief introduction here.

For the past two years Three Brothers and the International Federation Of Competitive Eating (www.ifoce.com) have sanctioned and presented the “Three Brothers International Pizza Eating Championship”. This event has drawn crowds of up to 1,500 people. The competition is normally held in August in collaboration with The Three Brothers Annual Anniversary celebration. However, this year’s competition will be held in May, nearly a full three months earlier to involve and raise funds for local schools.

DiGiorno For One Pizza and California Pizza Kitchen For One Pizza Deliver Delicious Oven-Baked Taste in a Personal-Size Pizza That is Ready in Minutes

Papa John’s Pizza sold 23-cent pizzas in the Cleveland area Thursday in an effort to apologize for a T-shirt that offended Cleveland Cavaliers fans, but the pizza sale went over about as well as the franchise-sponsored shirts that called LeBron James a “crybaby.”

In what appears to be another sign that consumers are trimming back on restaurant spending, foodservice consultants Technomic found that consumers have shifted their pizza-ordering habits, cutting back on weekdays but ordering more often on weekends.