Life's more delicious with pizza
Plus upgraded pizza dough and upping your in your pizza game at home
Pizza isn’t just something you eat in New York, it’s part of the landscape. Like the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building, it’s an indelible part of the city.
What better way to learn the history and understand what makes NY pizza so good then to go on a food tour?
I found Scott's Pizza Tours through a friend years back and missed my opportunity in 2016. That may or may not have been over served the night before and just couldn't motivate myself to make it out - my own doing and I kicked myself for it many times.
Now we're in 2022 and I finally made it. If you're headed to New York, I highly recommend putting Scott's Pizza Tours on your things to do. It's a walking tour where you hit three different pizza places all with slightly different versions using different ovens, slightly different ingredients and slightly different processes.
I went on the Greenwich tour and was able to try a true NY style, traditional Neapolitan, and one somewhere in the middle. This is the best way to do it because you can compare and pick your favourite. And back to my thoughts on, is there such thing as the best? No. It's alway going to be a personal preference and that goes for pizza too. Our tour guide Dave had the same thoughts and had this exact sentiment at the beginning of the tour. Dave gets it. Dave is cool.
Of course I was that girl asking all the questions like a kid in their 'why' phase. What flour they use, how long it proofs for, what kind of yeast they use, etc so I can take all the notes to experiment at home. I can’t not be learning when it comes to cooking. And while it's never going to be exactly the same, I get to come up with my own delicious version that’s pretty damn great in my opinion.
So of course I'm sharing all I learned with you. All the things I learned and what to think about to make the best (for you) version of pizza at home without investing in a pizza oven. Because if you’re like me and live in an apartment that’s just not happening so we adapt.