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a14 people & arts
Thursday 3 december 2020

Brothers write a love letter to a food we all love — pizza

By MARK KENNEDY better than cow milk for “Encyclopedia just feels
AP Entertainment Writer making mozzarella. quite cold and quite fac-
NEW YORK (AP) — Let “There’s that saying: tual,” says Thom Ellliot.
Thanksgiving have the tur- There’s two kinds of people “We’ve been told by so
key. Let Christmas have in the world — people that many people in so many
fruitcake. Every other day, love ABBA and liars,” says different ways that pizza
it’s got to be pizza. James Elliot. “Not all music is not enough to carry
So argue Thom and James has to be high and mighty a book. ‘There are not
Elliot, brothers and pizza in the same way that not enough interesting things
makers from England who all pizza has to be high and to say about pizza.’ And so
have written a book cel- mighty. You can love differ- we have been on this mis-
ebrating the worldwide ent songs and different piz- sion for five years to write a
phenomenon of roundish zas for all kinds of different longer and longer and lon-
dough cooked with top- reasons.” ger and longer list of why
pings. The origins of the book these people are wrong.”
In the 270-page “Pizza” began when the brothers Despite the brothers’ obvi-
(Quadrille), the brothers ditched their regular jobs in ous respect for the classic
offer over 30 recipes for 2012 to go to Naples and Neapolitan version, they
homemade pizzas — in- learn all about pizza. They acknowledge the impact
cluding a carbonara and traveled the length of Italy of the huge pizza-making
one with asparagus and and the world and, once chains, like Pizza Hut and
pancetta — as well as eat- educated in all things deli- Domino’s. The book in-
ing guides to delicious slic- cious, came back to the cludes interviews with their
es in cities like Rome, Paris, United Kingdom to open executives, who oversee
Chicago and New York. It a chain of pizzerias, Pizza companies making millions
turns out New Haven, Con- Pilgrims. In Chicago, they of pizzas a year.
necticut, has a very distinct encountered that city’s fa- “You can’t ignore it.
and vibrant pizza scene, mous, dense variation. “We They’re doing something
though its just 70 miles from ate four deep dishes a day right. Whatever you think,
New York. This cover image released by Quadrille shows “Pizza: History, for five days,” says Thom they’re doing something
The Elliots marvel that while recipes, stories, people, places, love” by Thom Elliot and James Elliot. “I really surprised my- right,” says Thom Ellliot.
the pizza we eat today Elliot. self. I went to confirm my “They love pizza. These are
was invented in Naples in Associated Press hatred of it, but actually not people who are just
the late 1800s, other cul- left being like, ‘This has got sitting there going, ‘Oh,
tures have their own ver- James Elliot. “It’s a bit like as well as the various ways a place for sure.’” we don’t care. It’s just all
sions, from one with spiced the way so many cultures people can eat it, from roll- The book is a distillation of about the margin and how
ground meat in Lebanon created beer indepen- ing it into a cigar to a tech- all they learned, from pizza do we sell more for less.’”
to a baguette topped with dently. Just great ideas nique called the “snag and records (“Cheesiest Pizza,” Pizza, to the brothers, is
mushroom and cheese in make it through.” drag.” “Furthest Pizza Delivery”) to clearly woven into the fab-
Poland. The brothers include sec- They present the info with- how to work with active dry ric of humanity, a cheap,
“All these countries came tions on controversial in- out judgement, refusing yeast. The working title was delicious, satisfying meal
up with this on their own. gredients — pineapple, to weigh in on whether “The Pizzapedia,” but the that can be scaled up or
And that is the definition of that’s you — and which coal ovens are better than authors felt that didn’t con- down. It’s a food we eat
a good idea, right?” says drinks to pair with a slice, wood or if buffalo milk is vey their love of the food. when we are celebrating,
gathering for entertain-
Discovery’s reality-heavy streaming ment, working hard collec-
tively or when we’re just in
service launches in Jan. need of a hug.
“Pizza is the place that peo-
ple turn when they’re strug-
By The Associated Press late 2019, but did not provide details gling, when they break up,
Discovery is joining the increasingly until now. when they lose their job,
crowded streaming fray with its own Discovery has built a reality-TV em- when they’re just having a
reality-focused service Discovery pire with popular channels that fea- tough day. Pizza is the food
Plus that will include shows from the ture reality programming, including that they talk about — like
Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its the Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food In this July 31, 2017, file photo, the their spouse — that thing
other networks. It launches Jan 4. Network, TLC, Investigation Dis- Discovery Communications logo sits that carries them over the
The service will cost $5 a month with covery and others. Hit shows have atop its headquarters in Silver Spring, line,” says Thom Ellliot.q
Md.
ads and $7 a month without ads. By included TLC’s “90-Day Fiance,” Associated Press
comparison, the ad-free Disney Plus HGTV’s “Fixer-Upper” and Guy Fieri’s
costs $7 a month and Netflix’ most “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” on the streaming services started to chal- Solution Sudoku
popular plan costs $14 a month. Food Network. lenge traditional TV providers and
Each account will include up to five The service will offer some originals dominant streaming services like
user profiles and support four con- like “90-Day Fiance” spinoff “90-Day Hulu and Netflix over the past year,
current streams. Discovery said the Diaries” and “Long Island Medium” including Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus,
service will be available on “major spinoff “Long Island Medium: There HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock
platforms,” connected TVs, web, in Spirit.” service. CBS recently rebranded its
mobile and tablets, but it didn’t Verizon customers will get a year CBS All Access service as Paramount
specify which services would carry free of the service, similar to the Plus, relaunching in 2021.
it. deal that Verizon did when Disney The service will role out in 25 coun-
Discovery CEO David Zaslav first an- Plus launched in late 2019. tries in 2021 including Italy, Spain,
nounced the streaming service in Discovery Plus joins a slew of new U.K. and Ireland as well as India.q
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