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Favorite Pizza

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This week is pizza week! What's your favorite?

I love mozzarella cheese and so my number one favorite has always been ?extra cheese?. The pizza sauce has to be just so or I won?t order a pie or slice from a particular pizzeria again. I like the sauce New York style: if there isn?t a drop of oil running down my arm as I eat the slice, it?s not real sauce.

I moved from Long Island to Maryland in 1985. It was a challenge to find the right pizza place.

Several places were just too awful and I never went back. One was called the Irish Pizza Pub and, no lie, the pie crust seemed to be made of saltine crackers!

Another was in a shopping center just down the street from my apartment. I called one day to order an extra cheese pie. There was a long silence and then a confused voice responded, ?We don?t have no pie here, lady. Just pizzas.?

I walked into yet another pizza place near my parents? trailer and everyone behind the counter was Asian! I knew I was in trouble.

My brother advised me to try Pizza Hut for the best pizza in Maryland. That?s not saying much. I?m not going to knock their pizza but it?s just not the same.

There was a pizza place at the mall in Columbia, Maryland, and at last I?d found the place! The owner and some of the guys working there were from the Bronx, NY. It figures.

Here in NJ, I expected there would be lots of good pizzerias. New Jersey is just a hop, skip and a jump from New York so how could they go wrong? My personal favorite is Soprano?s in Browns Mills. There are other pizza places near by, lots of them in fact. So far I haven?t tasted a slice that was as good as Soprano?s although everyone has their own favorite.

Now if I could just find a decent bagel shop!