by ben@ben-smith.net | Oct 19, 2013 | Uncategorised
After Flagstaff I headed to New York which in my humble opinion has the strongest claim to the best pizza city on earth. The tea however is rubbish. You only make the mistake of ordering a tea in a coffee shop once I’m guessing they don’t have PG tips over there, but...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorised
24 hours travelling, Government shutdown, elocution lessons and silly amounts of pizza. Flagstaff is a long way from the UK, I appreciate that now, it’s also much higher and hence colder than I’d envisaged, so much for shorts and t-shirt desert weather. Yet it’s a...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorised
This weekend I’ll travel 5000 miles for pizza. That’s got to be close to some kind of record, it’s five times further than the Proclaimers were prepared to go. I’ll be going to spend some time at Pizzicletta. There are arguably better pizzerias around, and definitely...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Aug 26, 2013 | Uncategorised
Pizza number two was a combination I’ve wanted to try for a while and relied on a homemade masala paste which I currently can’t get enough of. We use a Simon Hopkinson recipe which has been the basis of some of our more successful curries – make in...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Aug 26, 2013 | Uncategorised
It’d been a while since we’d fired up Bertha, turns out getting married takes up quite a bit of your time. A sunny Bank Holiday Monday formed the perfect excuse though and a great opportunity to try some new toppings. First up a take on a restaurant dish...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorised
A second topping post following on from last weekend’s firing, this one slightly more traditional, a margherita with spicy nduja sausage or as I prefer to call it, the Isle of Wight Ninja. I picked up some stunning Isle of Wight tomatoes from the market, crushed...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorised
I’ve long been a fan of the Serious Eats pizza blog, Slice and in particular their Top This feature which in their own words “show[s] you how to replicate unusually topped restaurant pies at home”. Now I’m a pie fan but a pie to me is prefaced...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorised
Well, not quite, more Return to the Pizza Jedis, but Ealing certainly felt like a galaxy far, far away from North London. It’d been ages since we’d been to Santa Maria, too long, but Ealing is a bit of a mission. It always took something special for me to...
by ben@ben-smith.net | May 24, 2013 | Uncategorised
There’s something deeply satisfying about ordering the whole menu. No faff, no compromise. Simple. We’ll just have it all. I’ve only managed this on a couple of occasions, normally it’s practically, financially and gastric…ly unfeasible. It’s also rare, even for...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Apr 21, 2013 | Uncategorised
Feels like we’ve had several seasons worth of weather condensed into the last couple of weeks. Last time I wrote I was making pizzas in the snow wearing all the layers I own and yesterday was well and truly shorts and t-shirt weather – has spring finally...
