We’re off to the 2009 Food and Wine Classic in Aspen for three days of delicious bliss! Stayed tuned for tasty updates as Savory Tv joins Average Betty and Plum Tv for coverage of the event! In addition to our team, we are also looking forward to meeting Jen from Daily Blender, Chef John from Food Wishes, and Danny from Foodie Aspen. Cheers and safe travels fellow foodies and epicures! À bientôt!
Today is Pizza day! Why? Because I’ve been craving it since watching Stephani Izard’s video this morning! And although Top Chef Stephanie is a Chicago girl now, she grew up in the East Coast, and admits to being a diehard fan of the NY style thin crust.
Which led us to ponder the never ending NYC thin crust versus Chicago deep dish debate. Yes, it’s been played out to death, but it’s absolutely a subject many feel passionate about! I put a quick shout out on Twitter, and here is a taste of the @replies:
Our Colorado friends Abo’s pizza placed a vote for NY. Delicious food blogger Two Peas and Their Pod voted Chicago, and she gave us her favorite deep dish pizza recipe, thank you! Gera from Sweets Foods wanted to vote from another area, but we did not hear back! So we’ll count that one as neutral, Gera let us know in the comments! Susan from Culture Trek gave us this: ” Aways thin NY, because if I wanted bread, I would eat…. bread (sorry Chicago, I love most everything else about you)”. Food writer Cate OMalley from the Sweetnicks blog had this to say: “thin crust with bubbles all the way”. Teacher and writer Carrie Havranek said “NY Thin! You need to be able to walk around with the pizza while you are doing five other things. Can’t do that w/ deep dish!” Which brings us to an interesting advantage of the big apple: foldability. New Yorkers love being able to multitask and eat their slices while driving cabs, and trekking the city, an impossible feat with silverware. My vote: sorry Chicago, the NY crispy minimalism wins my heart every time. Final score: NY 5, Chicago 1. More responses are need, let us know in the comments what your preference is, we would love to hear it!
In our featured video today, Stephanie visits Spacca Napoli where they show her their secrets for an authentic Neopolitan Italian pizza. She then goes home with two cute munchkins in tow, and she makes her own version with a white wine and honey crust, and a garlic tomato sauce with apples. Read about her experience here, and her written recipe is here. If you are an ipod user, be sure to subscribe to her podcast “The Tasty Life” so that you can catch every delicious episode.
See you in Aspen Stephanie! This just in via The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen on Facebook, “Watch Top Chef Season 4 winner Stephanie Izard challenge Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg at this year’s Quickfire Classic Cook-Off.” Big cheers again for our friends from Plum Tv for getting us there!