Wood-fired

Il Lazzarone – The Only Truly Authentic Neapolitan Pizza in KC (that I’ve found so far)

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I’ve written about some pretty delicious Neapolitan-adjacent pizza from around Kansas City–and contrasted it with the hot steaming garbage served at Minsky’s. By adjacent, I mean outstanding pizza cooked in a hot wood-fired oven with a thinness and consistency approaching the Neapolitan style, but is probably cooked at not-quite-hot-enough temperatures (maybe 700 instead of 1,000 …

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Clay & Fire – An Emblem of Kansas City’s (and the Midwest’s) Culinary Transformation

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Over the past few decades, culinary expectations and offerings in America’s midsized cities, particularly in the Midwest, have utterly transformed. The popularity and visibility of celebrity chef culture and global cuisine, popularized by food and travel television and competition cooking, and driven by the demands of a more well-traveled base of potential restaurant patrons and …

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