NY Times article about the first takeout pizza in the US

[linguafood (Natascha)]

A member of my WFD group on Fb posted this gem. It’s not the entire txt, but I found it an enlightening and fun read.

Each one will make four portions, although many can do away with a whole pie single-handed.

No way

[ernie_in_berkeley]

Here’s a link to the full article. I think you have to subscribe to read it in the “Time Machine” archive–there’s no gift link.

https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/20/archives/news-of-food-pizza-a-pie-popular-in-southern-italy-is-offered-here.html

[ernie_in_berkeley]

And here’s a gift link to a 1949 Atlantic article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1949/10/pizza/643861/?gift=YfNqJxowQwEIvXuKPx1jj6OSBedmu24803-nD8FoE-Q&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

[Hunterwali]

Thank you so much. I have a subscription so ended up nosing around the paper from that day. Arensic and Old Lace was in the in cinema. There was also an article about women getting ready to give up war work.

[kaleokahu (Kaleo)]

Don’t you wonder? By this publication date, Allied armies in Italy were probably already enjoying pizze Napoletana.

[Lectroid]

“packed, piping hot, in special boxes for that purpose”

I love this. “Can you believe they made a SPECIAL
BOX just for this one weird foreign food?!”

It’s like watching a toddler discovering making hand shadows with a flashlight… it’s so ordinary but seems
mind-blowing to them.