Hello everyone! This day is a long time coming . . . . . many people have asked when I would have a website or blog, etc. Up until now, I have used Facebook as my official meeting place for pizza lovers and a spot to review new pizza shops in and around the world. I thought it would be nice for me to take it all into one place for all of my followers :-)
It has been 10 years since the Pizza Whore Tour's first excursion. You see, it was a beautiful Spring evening at West Chester University. Kristy Grote - the original "pizza whore" (I'll explain in a minute) and I were visiting WCU and waiting for a concert at Swope Hall. Since I was only in town for a night, it was important that Grote and I went for our favorite past time - a slice of pizza. Now let's rewind to how the name came about . . . . .
Grote and I were good friends in college, but not only did we have music in common, we had a bond of both being from New Jersey and developing a love for the great art form that is PIZZA! Together we frequented all of the local pizza shops - Riggtown, Amore's, Pizza U and whatever other places in the area we could find. Now we all know that almost all college students love pizza, but most people have their limits. Not Grote and Joe. They could eat pizza as every day, and sometimes they did! The term "pizza whore" came about when Joe realized that no matter what Grote was doing, where she was or what time it happened to be, if he asked her to go get pizza, she would pretty much always say "YES!"
So here we are, 2005, waiting for the Crites concert with 2 hours to kill. Where should we go? Do we go to the old standby - Amore's - where you can get 2 slices and a soda for $4 and Throw in a little breadstick with sauce on the side? What about Riggtown - and their glorious $1 slices - even though they are traditionally much better after 10pm when the line is out the door and you slightly (or VERY) inebriated? How about Pizza U - i mean for God's sake - they have a large pie for $4.95! Here's an idea - let's go to them all! We hopped in the car and went to our first pizzeria. After a great slice, we got in the car, and on came the theme song for the tour - Kanye West's "Gold Digger." We made it through about 1/3 of the song before we arrived at our next place - and in we went. After we made it to a few places, in record time, we realized "why stop now?" and before it was all over, we hit up 7 glorious pizza stops, in under 2 hours, for the most amazing dinner run either of us had ever been on. We then made our way back to WCU and watched/listened to the concert, in an apparent food coma.
A similar event occurred a few years later, in "the village" in NYC, with 5-6 friends, in which we went to 5 pizzerias in the area for lunch . including Joe's Pizza and Bleeker Street Pizza. Unfortunately, pictures and recollections of these old events were lost in the great tragedy of 2009 - when my hard drive crashed - quite literally - to the floor at MDK 187 Valley Road, and all my pictures were lost. I still have the hard drive in hopes that one day it will be cheap to recover all of my old files.
The most well-known leg of the tour came in the summer of 2011 - just at the beginning of my relationship with Kristyn Martin. During this summer, I went to 50 new pizza places in a matter of 50 days. Yes, 50 brand new places that I had never been to in my life. 1 each day. It started off as a plan to go to every pizzeria in Clifton. After a few days, it turned into a Facebook sensation with people recommending where to go, asking me to go with them, bragging about their favorite places, and constantly asking me for advice or recommendations. It spiraled into a 50 day love affair with pizza that has gone unrivaled to date.
Through the years, I have continued to review my pizza exploits on Facebook and give you pictures and updates on not only the slice, but the experience. I also continue to take recommendations and thoughts about places I should try and will make my attempt to get to as many of them as possible.
The purpose of this website and blog will be to recreate and review all of the old pizza posts I have put up through the years (at least the ones I can find) and to continue to review and post about new places and old favorites. You can use this as a one-stop shop for thoughts on great and not so great pizza. What am I doing this? because I have SOOOOO much extra time on my hands. . . . . yeah right - - - - - I guess it's just a little hobby and something to do late at night while watching Sportscenter for the 3rd time trying to fall asleep. :-)
I hope you enjoy and I will be updating as often as possible with old and new posts from as far back as I can remember.
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