Lorain Local Magazine Issue Nine

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In Celebration of A taste of some of the Pizza! Lorain! It's kinda our thing! No, really, it's honestly no secret that the people of Lorain are mega passionate about pizza. But how did an international city that's a melting pot of different cultures end up being such an intense pizza location? It's totally weird, and we may never know the answer. If you want to bring some pizza over and speculate ideas with me that would be super cool! And since I don't know the answers, I need to warn you that this article is a totally random stream of consciousness, not a review of our local pizza shops.

Selenti's Pizza

808 Oberlin Ave.

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When I think of pizza, it's not just tasty, circular comfort food. Pizza is nostalgia. Pizza was there for so many of life's happy moments, and in a way, pizza is like an old friend. If I think about a specific pie, my b my brain lights up with old memories. And I can even remember the taste, texture, and smell. Does that mean Rosie's Pizza 3113 Broadway that pizza is like a time machine of sorts? For me, it totally is. But if the time machine metaphor metaphor is a little weird for you, there's actually a scientific explanation for this phenomenon: phenomenon:the theProustian Proustianmoment— moment—a sensory experience that triggers a rush of memories often long past or even seemingly forgotten. And to me, this moment is like a food time machine. Going back to my childhood, I'll never forget pizza nights at our house. The brown parquet floor of my mom's kitchen, the old cabinets housing white plates with blue floral designs, and mom walking in the back doo

Mama Shaffer's homemade recipe

door with a stack of pizza boxes in her arm—with thethe mounting anticipation of flipping the boxes open mounting anticipation of flipping the boxes andopen catching that firstthat glimpse of melted cheese and catching first glimpse of melted goodness, cheese ggrabbing the lava-hot slices, devouring them a wild animal them likelike a wild animal andtotally totally scorching the roof of my mouth. On birthdays, my mom would always make her my mouth. On birthdays, my mom would always make famous her famouspizza, which is my absolute favorite pizza in famous homemade the world—I could eat like 5,000 pieces. But if you have siblings, quickness becomes the key if you want more than just a few slices! Once my sisters walked downstairs with their sky-high mall bangs, it was a wild grab for the remaining slices of pie.


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