I know what "Brooklyn style" pizza should taste like and I can tell you that it's really no different than Manhattan style, Queens style or Bronx style. OK, or even Staten Island style.
New Yorkers pretty much all fold their pizza and most pizzas are made in similar fashion. The crusts are roughly the same thickness and made fresh daily and the sauce is pure tomato sauce. And we rarely put more than one topping up there.
I'm fond of drizzling off a bit of the orange oil after folding, but it's not required. Some places still use the original old coal pizza ovens like the pizza pioneers 100 or more years ago.
Domino's, of course, has introduced its "Brooklyn Style Pizza" and I have no idea what that is meant to mean. New York style would make more sense, but even then I'm fairly certain that it's nothing like the real thing. But at least they didn't put eggs on it or stuff cheese into the crust.
If they want to send one over to the office one day, I promise to approach it with an open mind (and mouth). But until that day arrives, I will remain -- like any born and bred Brooklynite -- skeptical.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
