About Me

Notes from a professional pizza lover

Monday 30 May 2011

Begin at the beginning

Blogs are often linked to hobbies and sharing with like-minded people with similar passions. The Pizzaphiles' passion is for pizza. The unexpectedly rich world of critiquing, analysing, appreciating that wonderful Italian food staple, the honest pizza. My first pizza was indeed of the Pizza Hut variety, in the days before stuffed crusts became an overly cheesy necessity. There's something about Pizza Hut that corresponds spot on with the 80s in both style and in substance- big, doughy, garish colours, a plastic feel and that leopard print pattern of melted and browned processed mozzarella cheese. It was of course the pizza of choice for the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and Ghostbusters and is a symbol of unadulterated Americana as enduring as McDonald's and Coca Cola.

Pizza Hut began in Kansas in 1958

this Pizza Hut advert from 1989