Pizza: A Love Story

I was expecting exclusively a documentary about the three pizzerias themselves, but this film has a bunch of extra toppings included. The film also explores the immigration experience of many Italian and other immigrants who took factory jobs and how pizza was one of the foods they could reasonably afford (a tradition that remains for many college students). The film continues with the gentrification of slum neighborhoods through eminent domain and how pizza continued to unite the people displaced from their homes.

It is a must see.

Watch cooking shows? Love cooking?

Want to learn why New Haven, CT is home to 3 of the best pizza restaurants in the world? This movie will make you salivate over something as simple as pizza. Is it simple? Is it the water? Is it the oven?

Get the family together and make your own pizza and sit down while it's hot and watch the movie. It is so fun to learn the history, see the colorful characters and you will be transported to New Haven with every bite.

APIZZA yum! I was introduced to it in 2000 and make a pilgrimage to New Haven several times a year. Pepes, Sally's or Modern everyone has a favorite. Mine... Pepes

I think it is time to go back and do the taste test!

Enjoy...

This documentary is an engaging look at New Haven pizza and an enjoyable musing on what makes authentic pizza so much better than most of the junk you can find in national chains. It will be particularly amusing and satisfying for those of us in the Northeast who have tasted the difference. The pizza makers are interesting, the testimonials are touching, and the pizza looks amazing. I learned a lot about one of my favorite subjects, pizza!

I loved this movie. The history and culture of New Haven is explored in an interesting way. Chicago style is basically a casserole. This film made me laugh out loud and incredibly hungry.

This documentary reviews where the best pizza in America, (and possibly the world), has had a long history in New Haven, Connecticut. Three old school pizzerias-Pepe's, Sally's and Modern each have strong rival fan bases and immense popularity in a city that was rooted with Italian immigrants and experienced devastating effects of urban renewal. Food critics, celebrities and fanatics discuss how they travel far to have this pizza. The rich history of each pizzeria are all connected to the Italian community of New Haven. The film will have you craving pizza and eager to try the pizzas to judge for yourself.