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It's National Pizza Day, so let's wrap ourselves in the warm, gooey embrace of cheese, settle into a heavenly array of toppings, and dig into a delicious crust.
The celebration takes place every February 9, but it is not the only place on the calendar where you can enjoy pizza. Still to come: National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), National Pepperoni Pizza Day (September 20), National Pizza Month (October), and National Sausage Pizza Day (September 11). October).
There's no doubt about it: people love pizza in all its forms.
Here are some silly pizza facts, helpful tips, and solid opinions to help you eat:
2024 could be the year pineapple pizza breaks into Italy, thanks to Gino Sorbillo.
It is a renowned Naples. pizzaiolo (pizza master) who added the dreaded pineapple to your menu in Via dei Tribunali, the best-known pizzeria in the pizza capital of the world. However, not everyone is happy about this.
Pizza was ranked as the food most associated with addiction-like eating behaviors, according to a study using the Yale Food Addiction Scale.
Its delicious combination of fats and carbohydrates, along with its complementary texture, color, and flavor profile are among the characteristics that make it so appealing.
If you're thinking Chicago or New York, you're wrong. At least that is the somewhat recent opinion of the authors of the encyclopedic “Modernist Pizza.” Find out which West Coast city beats the old pizzerias.
Surprise! 50 Top Pizza, an international guide run by Italians, made waves in 2023 when it claimed that the best pizza in Europe was, in fact, not found in Italy. This is the country that usurped that honor.
In the late 1960s, the U.S. Army's 113th Military Intelligence Unit used the tastiest trick in its book—making pizza deliveries—to spy on journalists and politicians, according to The New Yorker magazine.
Guinness World Records has recorded a seemingly endless list of pizza records. These are just a few:
The largest pizza in the world.: In Los Angeles, Pizza Hut and YouTube star Airrack set a new record for the world's largest pizza, at 13,990 square feet.
Longest pizza delivery: In 2006, Paul Fenech traveled 19,780 kilometers (12,346.6 miles) from Madrid to Wellington, New Zealand, to personally deliver a pizza to Niko Apostolakis. CNN couldn't find any record of whether the pizza was frozen when it got there or whether Apostolakis actually ate that thing.
Pizza delivery at higher altitudes on land: Good news! If you manage to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, you might be able to convince Pizza Hut to deliver you a victory meal. After all, they've done it before.
Even the folks at PETA love trying pizza, as long as the pies are “cow, pig, and chicken friendly and packed with flavor.”
Animal rights advocates have featured their vegan favorites from Las Vegas to Philadelphia.
Italian anti-mafia police tracked down and arrested a suspected mobster in France, where he worked under the alias pizzaiolo.
In this case we are not being absurd. It's perfectly doable to make your own delicious pizza dough at home. If the idea intimidates you, Stanley Tucci, the host of CNN's “Searching for Italy,” guides you along the way.
