Whats the origin of the thin-crust, square-sliced pizza?
Actually, we do thin or deep dish, cut in wedges or square ‘ whatever the customer wants. But you can make two pounds of dough feed your whole family if you spread it out thin. The same amount will only feed five if you do it deep-dish style. My grandma had nine kids. She made schiacciate. She’d just punch out the dough and put tomatoes, basil and garlic on it and sprinkle it with a little cheese. She’d put that on the table with olive oil on the side. Schiacciate’s probably the original thin-crust pizza. Why cut it in squares? Grandma never had round pans. She had one rectangular pan that did lasagna, meat loaf, pizza and everything else. You do a mac and cheese pizza ‘ true or false? True! We do a spaghetti and meatballs pizza, too. We call it the anti-Atkins pizza. It’s fantastic. We don’t sell a lot of those, but people who try ’em always come back for more. The gyro pizza’s a big seller. The one I love ‘ it’s something nobody else has ‘ is the Swiss Pig pizza. It has full strip ba
