Month: December 2010

Acting poolish

The Dough Doctor explains how to incorporate poolish or ferment into your dough.

The Donte’s Way

In South Park, Pennsylvania, a small town less than 15 miles outside of Pittsburgh, husband-and-wife team Dwaine and Denise Marasco, the owners of Donte’s Pizzeria (dontespizzeria.com), know how to keep their customers happy. Inside, a wall covered with awards and framed magazine articles reminds customers of this fact. In the past few years, the Marascos’ shop has been voted among the best Pittsburgh-area pizzerias by […]

Cheese-y tourists

PMQ’s editor-in-chief skips the theme parks and tours Orlando pizzerias with New York pizza tour guide Scott Wiener.

Blissfully lost in Eataly

In an effort to bring high-quality Italian foods to New York, restaurateurs Mario Batali, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Joe Bastianich teamed up with Oscar Farinetti to open the megamarket and food hall Eataly, based on the success of the original Eataly, founded in 2007 by Farinetti in Turin, Italy. Located at 200 5th Avenue in the Flatiron neighborhood in Manhattan, Eataly is New York’s newest and largest Italian specialty […]

Senate Passes Food Safety Reform Bill

According to Nation Restaurant News, “National Restaurant Association executives praised the U.S. Senate’s passage of a sweeping food-safety enhancement law, but said they were disappointed the measure did not include a provision to eliminate a paperwork “burden†on businesses passed earlier this year as part of the health care reform law.”