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Breaded Chicken as a Pizza Topping is What’s Hot!
4 Trending Chicken Pizza Recipes Did you know that chicken is the 6th most popular pizza topping? When we surveyed the pizzeria industry for the 2023 State of the Pizzeria Industry Report, we asked for their top pizza toppings on their menu. Chicken ...
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Mike’s Monthly Tip: You’ve Never Had Dessert.
Have you ever had a dessert in your life? The answer is no, you never have. You’ve had red velvet cake, buttercream cake, peach cobbler, Deluxe Dutch Molten Volcano Pudding Surprise, or any other super wordy dessert name variation. Still, you...
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Plan Now for Fall and Winter Pizza Toppings
Keep it cozy with Cold Weather Pizza Toppings After a record-breaking hot summer in much of the U.S., we are ready for cooler temperatures. Are your fall and winter menus prepared to provide that cold-weather comfort? Just as summer tomatoes bring a ...
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Proper Recipe Creation
Restaurant Recipe Creation from Concept to Reality Often a recipe can be all title and no substance. The quattro formaggi pizza doesn’t amount to much if one of the four kinds of cheese is Velveeta. Like having a movie script start with the tit...
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Detroit Style Pizza: A Guide to Detroit Pizza
Discover Detroit-Style Pizza Detroit style pizza is a square, deep dish pizza that is known for its racing stripes sauce on top, cheese crust crown and light crust. Whether you call them red tops or square pizza, Detroit-style pizza is a unique pizza...
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Corn is the hit Pizza Topping of the Summer
7 Corn Recipes to Try Right Now It’s corn. A year after a kid went viral with his declaration of corn’s deliciousness. His words are top of mind as we see piles of corn on the cob at farmer’s markets and grocery stores. “It’s corn. A bi...
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Winning Pasta Dishes
Thinking of a pasta lineup this fall? Good call! Does the shape of the pasta really matter at the end of the day? Yes, it does! Those little corkscrews, twists and raised ridges all serve a function. They trap in cheese or sauce, giving each bite the...
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Thin Crust Pizza — The Crunchy History, Variations and Love
Crispy Business: Thin Crust Pizza In the year 365 AD, the Gauls surrounded Rome in a brutal siege, but the inner citadel still held. Roman citizens and soldiers on the walls stared down at the Gauls waiting impatiently in the surrounding swamps but b...
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Man on the Street: Stir Up the Menu Mix
When Tom Monaghan took over a struggling pizzeria in Ypsilanti, Michigan, called DomiNick’s in 1960, one of the biggest changes he made (besides changing the name to Domino’s) was to slim down the menu. He reduced the number of pizza sizes he off...
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Apple Pizza Ideas: Apple Harvest
Savory or sweet, apples belong on pizza It’s summer and the apple harvest will soon be plentiful. I have a special fondness for apples, growing up wandering my grandparents’ orchard. Today, I look out my office window, a small tree of pink lady a...
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Banana Peppers, Sweet Piquante Peppers on Pizza: A Peck of Pickled Peppers
Tame banana peppers and sweet piquante peppers pack a flavor punch When it comes to pizza toppings, peppers always add a punch — especially pickled peppers. If you’re looking for a pepper that is mild, while still delivering a lot of flavor, you ...
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Arugula Pizza: a Post-Bake Pizza Topping
Arugula Belongs on Pizza Arugula is a go-to pizza topping Let’s face it, greens go great on pizza. Even people that shy away from some of the heartier greens like kale and chard, can agree that there’s nothing like a handful of arugula to add dim...