Don’t let the unassuming red-brick facade and humble patio fool you: Proud Larry’s may look like your average small-town pizza joint from the outside, but it’s a venue that has played host to musical legends. Located in Oxford, Mississippi—home of the University of Mississippi and William Faulkner—Proud Larry’s, a … More
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Pizza by the Sea: Beach-Town Pizza Company Has Picture-Perfect Strategy for Marketing to Families
Jason and Kristi Beer (above) encourage customers to paint original designs on pizza pans, which help create Pizza by the Sea’s distinctive, off-kilter vibe. It’s a good thing Jason and Kristi Beer, owners of the three-unit Pizza by the Sea in the Florida Panhandle, like children—they’ve got a lot … More
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Dallas-Based Chef Lee Hunzinger Reimagines the Possibilities of Pizza
Ask movie buff Lee Hunzinger for his favorite film quote, and he’s quick with an answer, recalling a scene from Young Frankenstein in which a blind hermit tries to teach the monster how to smoke a cigar. “Fire is good, yes,” the hermit says, just before setting the slow-witted … More
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Adam Paccione Steers Red Tractor to Success in the Heart of the West
Folks in Montana have lived off the land for centuries. Crow and Blackfeet warriors once roamed these frozen plains, hunting buffalo and fishing the teeming rivers. Later came the pioneers, who tilled the hardscrabble soil to grow potatoes and beans, and the ranchers, with their vast herds of cattle … More
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&Pizza: Rebels With a Cause and a Whole Lot of Style
Fast-casual pizza is nothing new, but no one is doing it quite like &pizza—and Michael Lastoria, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based company, wouldn’t have it any other way. From branding its own beverages and snacks to crafting proprietary patterns for its ampersand-emblazoned swag, &pizza revels in breaking the mold … More
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Meet Gino Rago, the Pizza-Making Wizard of the Windy City
For Gino Rago, the multitalented chef and passionate proprietor of Panino’s Pizza in Chicago, pizza magic starts with the dough. Not just any dough, but a mystical elixir of flour, water, salt and lievito madre, better known as Mother Yeast. A hallowed tradition in Italy for hundreds of years, … More
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Richard ‘Daddio’ Ames Takes a Nostalgic Journey through the American Rockies
Richard “Daddio” Ames, owner of Daddio’s Pizzeria (daddios.ca) in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, returned to his Colorado birthplace in July. There, he presided, with joy and insight, over a remarkable get-together with his adopted online family of pizza innovators. Ames, one of the most respected voices on PMQ’s Think … More
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Pride of the Yankees: How Two New York Transplants Put Sardis, Mississippi on the Pizza Map
The sleepy Mississippi Delta hamlet of Sardis may not have a bumbling deputy named Barney or a town drunk named Otis, but it’s about as close to Mayberry as you could get. On Main Street alone, you’ll find a hometown theater, the Panola Playhouse, that has been staging family-friendly … More
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You can buy pizza, gas, fireworks and more at Anthony’s Food Shop in York, Maine
PMQ Pizza Magazine publisher Steve Green rarely passes on an invitation to discover regional pizza. So when he was invited earlier this year to the Boston area, a region heavily dominated by Greeks and Italians, it was an offer he couldn’t refuse. “Ed Noe, this great, burly man from … More
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Fedor Ovchinnikov of Russian chain Dodo Pizza may be the Steve Jobs of pizza
A renowned entrepreneur and founder of a Syktyvkar-based pizza concept, Ovchinnikov, 33, has reinvented the pizza business in his homeland.
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Meet Cane Ross Owner Jay Jerrier, the Merry Prankster of Pizza
Some people just can’t take a joke. Those people should probably steer clear of Cane Rosso (ilcanerosso.com) and Zoli’s NY Pizza (zolispizza.com), a group of phenomenally successful pizzerias in the Dallas area owned by Jay Jerrier. Depending on your definition of “funny,” Jerrier, Dallas’ merry prankster of pizza, will … More
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The Story Behind New York’s Legendary Lombardi’s Pizzeria
Credited as the first pizzeria in the country, this Little Italy institution has been churning out coal-fired pies for nearly 110 years.