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• - New York Pizza vs. California PIzza - the classic battle
• - Everyone knows New York pizza has thin crust and California pizza has thick crust. But that doesn't end it at all. There are plenty of places in California with thin crust pizza, and there are plenty of "Sicilian-style" pizzas to be found in New York
• - From the bottom up: New York crust tends to be more of a platform for the sauce and cheese. California pizza tends to have crust you can eat by itself as bread, far tastier alone
• - The New York sauce is far more plain, usually just a bit of salt, garlic powder, and/or onion powder. However, the sauce is made from the best tomatoes so you tend to get the tomato-ey flavor, rather than a pasta-sauce type flavor from the sauce
• - The cheese in New York is high in fat, and has a lot of flavor. Even a plain cheese pizza will have grease dripping from it
• - New Yorkers like their pizzas simple. Not too much of the fancy California-cuisine type ingredients. Mostly just Sausage, Basil, Mushrooms, and yes, sometimes even Pepperoni
• - The New York pizza is cooked quickly in a VERY hot oven. It tends to be somewhat partially burnt.

New York Pizza

Reviewed by AttyKendall on Nov 30, 2009