This week’s Last Supper focuses, in part, on one particularly aromatic pizza from Lovely’s Fifty Fifty. It was a bit of a revelation for me.
Until that dinner at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty, I’d never found a really good justification for eating pizza with the hands, aside from that being the way it was done in my family. Also, I suppose the hand method is a bit more convenient, if messier. It’s also far more expedient and therefore my preferred method.
Which is not to say I’ve never eaten a pizza with a knife and fork. I have in certain upscale joints. I also understand in Italy, unless your standing at a bar eating an actual slice, pizza is eaten with cutlery.
But until I ate the melted leek and pancetta pie at Lovely’s, I had absolutely no clue that hefting the whole slice to your face could add such an awesome olfactory dynamic to the enjoyment of the thing. Who knew?
Maybe you did. That’s why I’m polling you.
What’s the correct way to eat a pizza?
One time these two people came into where I work and ordered pizza. When I brought it out, one asked for a fork. The other said, “What? That’s like, unamerican.” ARE YOU GUYS UNAMERICAN?
How they eat pizza in Italy is as inconsequential as it is how they eat pizza in Arizona. Pizza is an advent of the New York Jewish community. If you want to base how you eat a slice on what is traditionally accepted, then your search should begin, and end there.
So pizza is a Zionist conspiracy???????????????
I KNEW IT!
Jason, the Wikipedia article on the history of pizza says otherwise. Unless you think it has been co-opted by anti-semites.
I’ve eaten pizza in Naples (its true birthplace) with and without cutlery. It depends on the type of pizza and the venue.
I never agreed with this bourgeois conspiracy to eat anything with a knife and fork. I just shove everything into my mouth with my hands, like a good man who’s earned his day’s pay.