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Grandma pizza is a distinct thin, rectangular style of pizza attributed to Long Island, New York. Typically topped with cheese and tomato sauce, it is reminiscent of pizzas baked at home by Italian housewives who lacked a pizza oven. [1] The pizza is similar to Sicilian pizza, but usually with a thinner crust.
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The style remained relatively unknown until the mid-1990s, when a pizza chef named Umberto Corteo began selling grandma pizza at his popular Long Island pizzeria, Umberto’s of New Hyde Park.
The first pizzeria in the U.S., Lombardi's, [4] opened in New York City's Little Italy in 1905, [5] producing a Neapolitan-style pizza. The word "pizza" was borrowed into English in the 1930s; before it became well known, pizza was generally called "tomato pie" by English speakers. Some regional pizza variations still use the name tomato pie ...
Grandma Pizza. Newsday LLC/Getty Images. Frequently compared to (or confused with) Sicilian pizza, grandma pies are a Long Island, NY, specialty and have a thin, rectangular crust sliced into ...
Jeff Gaetano shares a recipe from Tony’s Little Italy. Tony’s pizza dough. Makes (1) 12 inch pizza crust. 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour. 1 packet .25 ounce instant yeast. ¾ teaspoon salt.
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Lombardi's Pizza at 32 Spring Street in Little Italy, Manhattan. Gennaro Lombardi (August 6, 1887–November 24, 1958) was an Italian immigrant who moved to the United States in 1904. [1] He has sometimes been credited for opening the first pizzeria in the United States, Lombardi's, at 53½ Spring Street. However, later research has shown both ...