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Jaime writes:

Hi,
I just found your website and bought your book.

(Albert's side bar:
Here is the link:
http://legendsofpizza.com/pizzabook)

Looks great but I have a question about Pepe's white clam pizza.

First, to share: I grew up in New Haven and have had a lifelong love
affair
with Pepe's pizza. We started going there in the late '50's (I was born
in
'49) when Sarno's closed and my father switched us to Pepe's. Whenever I
visit from Ann Arbor, we would go to Pepe's. My father and Sal always had
a
lively conversation. When my father died in '95 from cancer, my brother
and
I went to Pepe's, told Sal and brought him some of my father's best wine
from his wine cellar. Needless to say, when I read your enthusiasm for
Pepe's, I knew you understood what constitutes the world's best pizza.

My question: I remember the white clam pizza (I'm missing part of a tooth from a shell I bit into 20 years ago!) as being olive oil, garlic, clams
and herbs.

I don't remember cheese on it. Your recipe calls for mootz.

Am I misremembering or is this your adapatation? If it is your adapatation, what's your best guess on how to approximate their white clam pizza?

thanks,
Jamie


My response:


First of all, thanks so much for the support of pizzatherapy.com

I am very humbled and thankful.

You are totally correct in your memory of Pepe's White Clam Pizza.

If you order a Pepe's Clam pizza, they will put mootz on it if you request it.

People that know the clam pie request and have it without mootz.

My pizza recipes are my own. I do not pretend to know how Pepe's makes a pizza. My recipes are for the home pizza maker.

While I do include a recipe from my firend Peter Reinhart (with permission of course), it is for a New York pizza.

Peter has a unique talent.

Peter claims to be able to deconstruct any pizza. That is he can eat a pizza and be able to tell not only what went in it, but also how it is made.

In his book, American Pie, he includes a recipe for Pepe's Clam pizza.

You can read my review at this page:

http://pizzatherapy.com/ameripie.htm

I hope this answers all of your questions.

Please let me know if you have any more. I also want to hear how your pizzas turn out.

Again, thanks for the support.

pizza on earth,

albert
pizzatherapy.com
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