During a recent three-week trip to Eastern Asia, I made it my mission to try at least one pizza place in each of the three countries I visited: Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The key was trying to strike a good ...
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Recently, I spent three weeks traveling around Eastern Asia. When booking my transportation, I arranged for a 12 hour layover in Frankfurt to explore the city and, of course, try some pizza. In fact, upon landing at Frankfurt Airport, I ...
Read More »Habana Pizzas: This Is Pizza In Cuba
I recently spent a week in Cuba as part of an academic trip with Columbia Business School. You may have read my review of La Carboncita, a somewhat upscale pizza place in a residential neighborhood of Havana. My classmates and ...
Read More »La Carboncita: The Finest Pie in Havana
I recently returned from a week-long trip to Cuba with Columbia Business School. As you may know, it’s nearly impossible for US citizens to travel to Cuba without an organized group (doing so, would require going through another country, like ...
Read More »Trattoria Lungofiume: Tasty Pies In Tokyo (When You’d Least Expect It)
The third and final pizza place I visited on my spring break trip to Japan was located in the same neighborhood (Nakameguro) as both Seirinkan and Trattoria Pizzeria Il Lupone. Yet it wasn’t somewhere on my list of places to ...
Read More »Trattoria Pizzeria Il Lupone: Tokyo’s Best Pie
During a week-long spring break trip to Japan, I wasn’t quite sure how many pizza places I would be able to hit. The final day of my trip had arrived, and I’d only been able to make it to one ...
Read More »Seirinkan: Simple Pies At Tokyo’s Funkiest Pizza Place
When I told friends I’d be spending my spring break in Japan, one of the most common questions was whether or not I was going to try any pizza there (answer: of course). I was only going to be there ...
Read More »Giuseppe Pizza: Superb Slices In Tel Aviv’s Florentine Neighborhood
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about my recent experiences at two pizza places in Israel: Green Door Pizza Bakery in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter (at which an elderly man makes pies from a hole in the ground) and Gusto ...
Read More »Creative Upscale Pies At Tel Aviv’s Gusto
During a recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to eat pizza at three very different places. Last week, I wrote about my experience at Green Door Pizza Bakery in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter, at which an elderly man makes ...
Read More »Green Door Pizza Bakery: Ancient Gem Hidden In Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter
I recently returned from a trip to Israel (my ninth time there!) and was able to sample pizza from three very different places. In prior postings about pizza in Israel, I’ve broken down the type of pizza place you might ...
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