"ITALIANS ARE WRONG. Not about cars or suits. About pizza, and they’re not entirely mistaken about that, only about crusts and buffalo-milk mozzarella. They’ve got the tomato part right. Pizza was created by the Italians—or maybe by the Greeks, who brought it to Naples, but let’s not pile on the bad news.
Right now it justly belongs to us. We care more about it. We eat more of it, and unlike the Italians, we appreciate it at dinner, at lunch, and at breakfast, when we have it cold, standing up, to make hangovers go away. Italians don’t really understand pizza. They think of it as knife-and-fork food, best after the sun goes down.
Pizza isn’t as fundamental to Italy as it is to America. Over there, it plays a secondary role to pasta, risotto, and polenta. To be candid, I think they could do without it. Not us. Over here, it’s one of the few foreign foods we’ve embraced wholeheartedly, made entirely our own." (Alan Richman, GQ)
Sure, Alan. Whatever you say. :-)
The latest issue of GQ lists the top 25 pizzeria in the US. Three are located in San Francisco: Delfina, Gialina, A16.
Now, Delfina is incredibly over-rated.
A16 is over-priced.
Gialina rocks.
But the real question is: where's Pizzetta 211, ftw?!?!
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