[Dixielandjazz] (Dixieland Jazz) Pete Kelly's Blues

[Russ Guarino]

Pizza Hounds,

My Grandfather was a baker and made pizza at home.  Yeast dough, anchovies, Italian
salami, garden tomatoes, oregano, cheese, etc., the whole works.  I grew up on pizza and
coke.

He called it pizza. I began eating it in 1938.  I've never tasted another pizza as good
as his. He lived in Southern California in a suburb of Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, I
think. We lived in Studio City.  He  come over from the old world at about age 23 and
never did learn to speak English. My dad was bilingual. But there was only one word for
"Pizza".

Russ Guarino

"Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon" wrote:

> >>>I did some checking and found that pizza, which was supposed to be the
> specialty of the restaurant the band play in, didn't really become known in
> America until the 1950's.  I remember a restaurant in Keansburg, NJ that had
> a sign that said "Pizza" and then under that said "Italian Tomato
> Pie."
> Nobody knew what it was!   So I doubth that a popular speakeasy in the
> heartland would be serving it in the 1920s.<<<
>
> Correct.  American post-war phenomenon.  Even Italians needed to be told what it was!
>
> (Correct me, please, if I'm wrong, List-Italians...),
>
> --
> Etc,
>
> Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon
> Special Assistant to the Presiding Archbishop
> North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
> www.naorc.org
>
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