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PIZZA FACT: According to several sources, seating pizza can help reduce the risk of a number of forms of cancer. Yes, it's the lycopene in the tomatoes, and the antioxidants in the crust (if your dough is whole-wheat).REFOCUSING OUR PLAN
A few months ago, subscribers received our letter telling you of our exciting new plans to open both a pizzeria and a mobile wood-fired pizza business in the Hudson Valley region of New York.Well, things change, but they stay interesting!
The plan for our brick-and-mortar pizzeria is temporarily on hold. Our prospective landlords shared their concerns with us about the economy and their own business plans past 2012 or 2013 - and they've strongly advised that we not move ahead with them at present. After much thoughtful consideration on our part, we’re taking their advice.
We’ve decided that, rather than begin searching for a new location, we’re going to start by building Il Forno Mobile, our mobile wood-fired pizza business this year and reassess our situation in 2013. This feels right for both of us since it will allow us to work one business at a time, build a reputation in the area, and then move into creating a pizzeria.
We're still looking for a couple of investors/lenders. If you'd like more information on being a part of Il Forno Mobile, please drop us a line at 2-of-us@passion-4-pizza.com.
We're launching Il Forno Mobile this Spring, here in the Hudson Valley (centered at home in Highland, NY). We’ve ordered our mobile oven from The Fire Within, and of course we’ll let you know when we start bringing our pizza to the people!
When you're in the area, you'll know where to find us whenever we're making pizza, via our Facebook page (see below).
PASSION-4-PIZZA (finally) JOINS FACEBOOK
Okay, we're behind the curve, but better late than never, right? Shortly after enabling Facebook comments on most of our pages (go to almost any page at passion-4-pizza.com and scroll down - you can comment now!), we started a Passion-4-Pizza fan page on Facebook!Our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/passion4pizza) will display up to the minute P-4-P news, your comments and posts, featured pages and pictures, and more special content, including links to other pages we like!
When you come to visit, don't forget to press the 'Like' button at the top of the page so you can receive our updates on your own Facebook News Feed. Gee, we almost sound like we know what we're talking about, don't we?
Who knows - we may even "Tweet" someday.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF PIZZA
The world's first Pizza Museum is scheduled to open soon - in Philadelphia!?! The museum, Pizza Brain, is the brainchild of Brian Dwyer, who was recently added to the Guiness Book of World Records for having the largest collection of pizza memorabilia in the world. Dwyer and his partners Ryan Anderson and Joe Hunter will also be opening a pizzeria INSIDE the museum!Also in Philadelphia - Nomad Pizza (http://www.nomadpizzaco.com), in addition to their famous pizza truck and most excellent Hopewell, NJ location, has opened in Philly! If you've never read our Pizza Party at Nomad page, you'll find it here.
NEW ITEMS
We first visited historic pizza landmark Totonno's in Coney Island three years ago and fell in love with their pizza. We've been back several times and we tell anyone who asks that Totonno's is our favorite pizzeria anywhere, but we'd never written about it on the site - until now. Here's our Totonno's page!Again, don't forget to become a fan of our Facebook page!
Favor us with your favorite pizza recipe here! Our newest section gives you a chance to share your pizza recipes and see what pizza recipes others have shared You can create your own recipe page, post photos of your own pizza creations, and add comments!
Come see us again! Visit passion-4-pizza.com. And tell your friends!
