Famous Original A's

Whenever I have to take photos of a pizzeria for Slice or a restaurant for any of the Serious Eats sites, I like to make sure there are people walking in front of them. I figure that years from now, looking back, it’ll be much more interesting than having just an empty foreground. The clothes and hairstyles will immediately identify the era in which they were taken. Here’s a first for me — a group of joggers running by. I like how the pizza guy is out front taking a break and taking it all in, too.

And here is my review of Joe’s on Slice »

Update (2/24/2011)

Oh, even though SE’r timboleo is being sort of a downer here on this comment on my Slice post, I like that he noticed the joggers:

“You couldn’t take a better picture of the place, one without runners in front of it?”

My response there pretty much apes what I said above.

This is probably the most pizza dough I’ve had on hand at any one time. I made the 5 containers at right on Sunday evening and the two stacked containers at left this evening.

All are the Cook’s Illustrated Thin-Crust Pizza recipe, which would be evident if you could read my notation. “CI 1/3 265g” means “Cook’s Illustrated, divided into 3 portions, 265 grams each.”

As I said in my last post, I’m trying out the smaller dough balls to see how well they work. The larger 395 gram doughs sometimes are too large for my stone diameter.

Anyway, those on the left are reserved for official Pizza Night with the wife, while the rest are for a few toppings experiments I want to run on Wednesday.