FOOD BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER! THE STORY OF A PIZZA PILGRIMAGE by Sarah Lopez and Lynne Rosenberg
Where do chemistry, biology, history, linguistics, urban planning, genealogy, food science, art, and thermodynamics come together? The study of pizza. Lynne and Sarah spent a beautiful April Sunday afternoon traveling New York City in a big yellow school bus on a Scott's Pizza Tour. Here Lynne and Sarah interview one another about the experience. scientific method. We hypothesized. We found our conclusions. L: Absolutely. It was very much right up our alley. And that actually leads me to one of my questions. Can you tell me what happened at the very beginning of the tour when we looked at each other and realized it was going to be not just an awesome day, but specifically perfect for our relationship? S: The presentation that he did about the dough rising and the heat? Lynne: So Sarah. We did something very special L: True. He did give a really cool presentation about how fast the dough rises. I was thinking a couple of weeks ago. What did we do? at the very beginning he said, we are going to Sarah: We went on a pizza tour. approach this both quantitative ā L: We went on a pizza tour with Scott's Pizza S: Yes! Tours. L: --both quantitatively and qualitatively. And S: Yes. you and I looked at each other, like, Oh my L: Scott is a very good friend of mine. I've god, it's about to be the best day ever. known Scott for almost 20 years. We did figure out that he has been doing this longer than you have been alive, right? I want to say he started the year you were born, was it ā07? S: It was '07. But I think he started like a month before I was born, or after. I can't remember. It was extremely close. L: Yeah, very, very close. He was deeply disturbed by the fact that that you were the same age as his company, basically. But so what did we do? S: We traveled to a variety of different pizzerias and we tried different pizzas, using the 2
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