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Pizza in New Haven
Pizza in New Haven is the culmination of over 140 years of Italian cultural and culinary influence in this storied Yankee industrial city. Caplan captures a legendary but forgotten past showcasing the toils of immigration and factory work and the bonds created through preparing family recipes. The book opens readers’ appetites to one of the earliest and most influential pizza making cities in the country and how these hardworking families built a culinary industry around their shared passion for their native comfort food. The same coal that supplied the world with New Haven’s factory fare cooked the delectable pizza that fed mill workers, produce farmers, politicians, college students and townies of every color, creed and carriage alike. New Haven’s historic pizzerias dominate the city’s food landscape and attract hungry and curious visitors from around the globe looking to satisfy their quest for what is unequivocally the greatest food to ever be made.
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Pizza in New Haven
Pizza in New Haven is the culmination of over 140 years of Italian cultural and culinary influence in this storied Yankee industrial city. Caplan captures a legendary but forgotten past showcasing the toils of immigration and factory work and the bonds created through preparing family recipes. The book opens readers’ appetites to one of the earliest and most influential pizza making cities in the country and how these hardworking families built a culinary industry around their shared passion for their native comfort food. The same coal that supplied the world with New Haven’s factory fare cooked the delectable pizza that fed mill workers, produce farmers, politicians, college students and townies of every color, creed and carriage alike. New Haven’s historic pizzerias dominate the city’s food landscape and attract hungry and curious visitors from around the globe looking to satisfy their quest for what is unequivocally the greatest food to ever be made.
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Pizza in New Haven

Pizza in New Haven

by Colin M. Caplan
Pizza in New Haven

Pizza in New Haven

by Colin M. Caplan

Overview

Pizza in New Haven is the culmination of over 140 years of Italian cultural and culinary influence in this storied Yankee industrial city. Caplan captures a legendary but forgotten past showcasing the toils of immigration and factory work and the bonds created through preparing family recipes. The book opens readers’ appetites to one of the earliest and most influential pizza making cities in the country and how these hardworking families built a culinary industry around their shared passion for their native comfort food. The same coal that supplied the world with New Haven’s factory fare cooked the delectable pizza that fed mill workers, produce farmers, politicians, college students and townies of every color, creed and carriage alike. New Haven’s historic pizzerias dominate the city’s food landscape and attract hungry and curious visitors from around the globe looking to satisfy their quest for what is unequivocally the greatest food to ever be made.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781634990738
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 11/19/2018
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,032,652
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


COLIN M. CAPLAN is a New Haven native, architectural designer, historian, author, tour operator and pizza guru. He graduated with a master's in architecture from Tulane University and worked under a number of notable architecture firms. His food focus began when he founded Taste of New Haven culinary tours and events, and this merged with his passion for writing and telling stories. Caplan has spent countless hours researching, writing, interviewing, studying and eating his way through the epoch of pizza in New Haven.

Table of Contents

Foreword Scott Wiener 5

Preface 7

Acknowledgments 10

1 Italian Settlement 15

2 How Pizza was Delivered to America 29

3 The Rise of Italian Bakeries 35

4 Pizzeria Pioneers 58

5 Old Reliable 78

6 Apizza vs. Pizza 97

7 Pizza and Beer 105

8 Sally and the Clam 128

9 The Modern World 139

10 Apizza All Around 151

11 College Food 168

12 Pizza Ingenuity 174

13 Inside Apizza 187

14 Crazy for Pizza 208

15 The Upper Crust 213

Bibliography 217

Index 219

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