by Jon Lackman | 30 June 2006 | Uncategorized
“‘Her and, like, five old dudes in New York rule the roost in pizza,’ said the young waitress at Nizza La Bella restaurant here, about her boss, Evelyne Slomon. A few of those dudes died a while ago, so Slomon, who is one of the on-camera experts in the premiere episode of the History Channel series American Eats at 10 tonight, may have moved up the list … ‘Instead of doing my dissertation for my Ph.D. in art history,’ she said, ‘I wound up writing The Pizza Book: Everything There Is to Know About the World’s Greatest Pie’ … It was an unusual turn for a hard-working academic, headed for a professorship, someday, somewhere. But Slomon had a good excuse, one shared by the millions that helps explain the American Eats premiere topic: ‘I really liked pizza.’”
