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What's Cooking/Fav Pizza Topping?
Oct 13, 2006 | 8:48 AM
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Imagine... there is only one Italian Restaurant in your entire country.
Are you thinking Sbarro? If you lived in India you would be. (How weird is that?!)
A group of brothers started an Italian Deli in New York 50 years ago, and now they have more than a thousand stores world wide. This week the Executive Chef of Sbarro joined us on What's Cooking. Joe Borruso has worked for the company for more than 30 years... back when they had only a handful of locations. He's so into pizza, he showed us cell phone pictures of an enormous brick oven he built in his backyard.
During the segment, Borruso taught our anchors to spin pizza dough. Hilarious! If you missed it and would like to see how it's done, check out the segment clip under this web site's "fox morning" tab and look for the What's Cooking Archive.(or see link below) A word of warning... definitely messy. (I guess that's why when this guy is home, he does it in his backyard.)
Ok, so you see Sbarro everywhere... shopping malls, train stations... everywhere. What's the secret? Big surprise here--- quality ingredients. Borruso says don't skimp. The better the ingredients, the better the final product. Other than that, he says the hotter the oven the better. Apparently his outdoor baby gets so hot it cooks a personal pie in two minutes flat.
So this What's Cooking got me thinking about pizza toppings. So hard to pick a favorite... there's white pizza with baby clams (not exactly the most popular but I love it)... zucchini, mushrooms, olives...
Another producer here... Dan Brown just brought up bbq chicken... mmmm.
But ok, if I had to pick one, I go with meatballs!
---For more on Sbarro... www.sbarro.com
What's Cooking Archive(copy and paste):
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?con
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cowboysfan read my blog view my photos
Oct 13, 2006 | 1:21 PM

Being Italian, I agree with you MEATBALLS all the way !
Leobirddog
Oct 13, 2006 | 6:59 PM

MEATBALLS!! No Way. I like the white pizza with baby clams idea.....have to try that one day. Still, its all about the cheese, sauce, dough and maybe some sausage or pepperoni. Could eat this stuff everyday if it didn't go straight to my belly!!!
philliefan_00 read my blog view my photos
Oct 13, 2006 | 9:55 PM

I'm for any kind of meat on my pizza. Beef, chicken, pork -- it doesn't matter!
blair78 read my blog
Oct 18, 2006 | 8:13 PM

OK let's get serious here. Whatever topping you prefer, try using some mozzarella made from buffalo's milk. It melts in your mouth...even before you add it to the pizza! It is something you've never experienced before, and it's not expensive.... Costco has it!!!!!
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Lauren_DeMarco

Lauren DeMarco joined the Fox 5 team in November 2004 as a staff writer and traffic producer. She now regularly produces Fox 5 Morning Newscasts, occasionally Fox 5 News at Noon, and most recently began hosting My5 webcasts. Here's the link to the most recent one: http://media.myfoxdc.com/
my5/my5.html Originally from New Jersey, Lauren moved to Maryland to attend Loyola College. She spent time studying abroad in Madrid, Spain and graduated in 2003, with a major in communications, and a minor in Spanish. After graduating, Lauren was hired at WBFF-TV in Baltimore, as an assignment editor and associate producer. She spent a year and a half working on the 6:30 and 10pm newscasts, covering stories including Hurricane Isabel, and the overturned water taxi in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Now at WTTG, Lauren lives in Bethesda, MD just outside the DC line. In her free time, she enjoys travel, eating out, filling in as a radio reporter for D.C. metro traffic networks, and spending time with her dog Bogie.

Member Since: 8/31/2006


 

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