{"id":12876,"date":"2022-10-19T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/uncategorized\/celebrate-national-pizza-month-in-new-haven\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:27:12","slug":"celebrate-national-pizza-month-in-new-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/who-knew-blog\/celebrate-national-pizza-month-in-new-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Pizza Month in New Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is officially National Pizza Month \u2013 or if you\u2019re a local, National <\/span>Apizza <\/span><\/i>Month. In <\/span>New Haven<\/a><\/strong>, we take our pizza <\/span>very <\/span><\/i>seriously. Step aside New York and Chicago, the Elm City rests its case as arguably <\/span>the<\/span><\/i> pizza capital of the U.S., known for its famous Neapolitan-style apizza<\/em>. In honor of National Pizza Month, we\u2019re here to give you the inside scoop on the storied <\/span>New Haven pizza scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Origins
\n<\/i><\/b>First things first. How did New Haven put its name on the map for some of the best pizza in the country?\u00a0 Here\u2019s the back story. At the turn of the twentieth century, <\/span>New Haven became a popular city\u00a0 for Italian families who immigrated to the United States from Amalfi. The earliest pizzerias in the city (and around the country) were largely established by immigrants from Naples, Sicily, and southern Italy, who brought their love for thin-crust Neapolitan-style pizza to our local communities. Over the years, this storied style of pizza morphed into the famous apizza<\/em> as we know it today in <\/span>New Haven<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Always Charred, Never Burned
\n<\/i><\/b>So what makes <\/span>New Haven\u2019s apizza<\/em> the best in the country?\u00a0 It’s no secret that pizza dough made in pizzeria kitchens throughout the City undergoes a longer fermentation process, which allows the dough to proof more slowly during overnight refrigeration. This strategy, along with allowing the dough to reach room temperature before baking, is the secret behind its nuanced flavor. The second reason is the intensely hot coal-fueled brick ovens where the pies are intentionally left longer, producing the signature charred crust we\u2019ve all come to know and love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Apizza Holy Trinity
\n<\/i><\/b>To celebrate National Pizza Month, look no further than <\/span>New Haven\u2019s trifecta of Italian-American pizzerias. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, <\/span>aka “Pepe\u2019s,” was the first pizzeria to open on Wooster Street almost a hundred years ago in 1925, followed by <\/span>Modern Apizza, aka “Modern,” on State Street in 1934 and <\/span>Sally\u2019s Apizza, aka “Sally’s,” also on Wooster Street in 1938.
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Known for its white clam pizza, Pepe\u2019s has dominated the pizza scene for decades, opening five different locations throughout Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. In a similar fashion, Modern has also been churning out charred pizzas with its most famous pie being dubbed the \u2018Italian Bomb.\u2019 Over at Sally\u2019s, the famous sauce and grated cheese pizza has lines forming around the block. Legend has it that Frank Sinatra was a big fan and would even order it all the way to New York when he was in town \u2013 enough said.<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter which of the big three pizzerias you choose (<\/span>who says you can\u2019t try them all?<\/span><\/i>), rest assured that New Haven\u2019s famous Neapolitan-style apizza<\/em> will certainly not disappoint.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October is officially National Pizza Month \u2013 or if you\u2019re a local, National Apizza Month. In New Haven, we take our pizza very seriously. Step aside New York and Chicago, the Elm City rests its case as arguably the pizza capital of the U.S., known for its famous Neapolitan-style apizza. In honor of National Pizza […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[659,655],"tags":[618],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eat-drink","category-who-knew-blog","tag-pizza"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MNH-Blog-pizza-1600x1066-1-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MNH-Blog-pizza-1600x1066-1-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MNH-Blog-pizza-1600x1066-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MNH-Blog-pizza-1600x1066-1.jpg",1600,1066,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14001,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions\/14001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}