A damn tasty pizza in Todi, Italy. Too effete for Maggie's? (re-posted)

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A damn tasty pizza in Todi, Italy. Too effete for Maggie's? (re-posted)

Best pizza I've ever had, at least recently. Pupette and I took Mrs. BD out to a fancy Italian dinner for her birthday but I just ordered the pizza there. Not ordinary pizza.

Very thin crust pizza, like a cracker, burned black on the bottom as I like it, with melted chunks of goat cheese and chunks of peanut-sized chopped and sauteed white truffle, (no sauce), cooked over firewood, then sprinkled with some dandelion greens and thinly-sliced fresh figs and the whole thing splashed with hot white truffle oil.

The smell of it was a meal in itself. I usually prefer a pizza bianco with wild mushrooms, but I suppose I am, unfortunately, a pizza snob. This was better than that.

Mrs. BD had their beef carpaccio as an antipasto. It was as good as you can get in Todi, but without the view. Pupette had their tuna carpaccio with dill and cucumber as her antipasto, then ate half my pizza with a bottle of Moretti. She lost 15 lbs. on her 14 hr/day film job, need to fatten her up before she returns to school.

Truffle oil - and truffle - is one proof to me of God's existence. My hope is that Obama or Bernie will make truffles free for us all, when Utopia arrives. I can't wait.

Pic is a beautiful White Truffle. Cost around $125./ounce.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 15:35 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

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WHERE? (Sounds v-e-r-y tasty)

#1 steve in ct on 2012-08-14 13:30 (Reply)

Yes! We! Can! Truffle!

#2 Cato the Elder on 2012-08-14 13:38 (Reply)

If it cost more than $6.95, then yes - much too fancy for Maggie's. :>)

#3 Tom Francis on 2012-08-14 15:34 (Reply)

Absolutely. Although I might spring for ten bucks if it was good enough -- less cheese, more sauce.

#3.1 chuck on 2012-08-14 15:54 (Reply)

There's no pizza in that pizza.
I can tell you were not in Brooklyn or the Bronx, or you'd still be picking the tar and feathers off.

#4 Bruce Kesler on 2012-08-14 17:14 (Reply)

Don't knock it unless you try it!

#4.1 Bird Dog on 2012-08-14 18:06 (Reply)

Can't go for goat cheese, won't pay for truffle, and I won't do the Truffle Shuffle.

You can have all I don't eat. (This offer is unrefundable, and lots higher East of the Mississippi. Don't even ask East of the Monongahela. Batteries not included.)

#5 Sam L. on 2012-08-14 18:38 (Reply)

Never tasted truffle, of any sort.

Good for you.

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#8 Sam on 2012-08-15 18:13 (Reply)

Sounds disgusting. You described just about everything I would hate on or about a pizza. But whatever floats your boat, I guess. This kind of diversity I'm willing to tolerate.

#9 ruralcounsel on 2022-09-04 15:58 (Reply)

Only Inner Party members deserve truffles, you proles.

#10 LTC Ted on 2022-09-04 17:58 (Reply)

My grandmother used to bullshxt me about how eating burnt toast would give me curly hair. It didn't, and was nasty. So's burnt pizza crust. (Stuff white people like: grill marks.)

#11 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-09-04 22:55 (Reply)

I have travelled through Italy 4 times now and am convinced that Italian dishes are often good but Italian meals are vile.

Antipasto, Primi, Secondi, push off sailor, give me a plate with starch, meat and veg with a salad on the side and maybe a baguette.

Except for the "dish" of Italian pizza, which is all vile. Worse than vile, inedible burned junk on the bottom, soggy uncooked flour mush in the middle, with cheap-ass bits of cheese and SFA for toppings. What else do you prefer burned black on the bottom? Steak? Lettuce? WTF?

American pizza is the Crown of the Cuisine of Creation. Go forth and Sin no more.

#12 Fred Z on 2022-09-05 00:49 (Reply)

Looks like a rock.

#13 jdgalt1 (Link) on 2022-09-05 11:32 (Reply)

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