Pizza is a $35 billion a 12 months company, and nowhere is it taken extra heavily than long island urban. Journalist Peter Genovese surveys the city’s pizza scene—the nutrition, the company, the culture—by profiling pizza landmarks and personalities and score pizzerias in all 5 boroughs.

In this humorous, attention-grabbing publication, Genovese explores the bloggers who write approximately ny pizza, the obsessive urban dwellers who acquire and study the supply containers, Mark Bello’s institution the place scholars spend an afternoon making pies from scratch, and Scott Wiener’s pizza bus excursions.

Along the best way, readers examine the historical past of mythical Totonno’s on Coney Island (Zagat’s number-one pizzeria for 2012), in addition to behind-the-scenes tales approximately John’s on Bleecker road, Joe’s on Carmine, Lombardi’s, Paulie Gee’s, Motorino, and greater than a dozen different favourite spots and their proprietors. all through those profiles, Genovese offers a quick heritage of ways pizza got here to town in 1905 and built right into a significant appeal in Little Italy, an area that turned a coaching flooring for plenty of of the city’s best-loved pizzerias. relaxing proof and figures abound. do you know that american citizens positioned 250 million kilos of pepperoni on their pies each year? Or that Domino’s has extra retailers consistent with capita in Iceland than in the other country?

Beyond the tales and tidbits, Genovese offers particular, borough-by-borough reports of 250 pizzerias, from basic “slice outlets” with scant surroundings to gourmand pizzerias, together with retailers that use natural constituents and scan with new diversifications of crusts and toppings. Complemented via hundreds of thousands of present and never-before-seen archival photographs, the publication supplies the standard slice its right due and should go away readers crushed via a unexpected hope for brand spanking new York pizza.