Hey, everyone.
Dan here with another Sporkful reheat for you.
And this one is in memory of the one and only Patsy Grimaldi, a New York pizza legend.
He died at the age of 93 in February.
Patsy and his wife Carol, who passed away in 2014, they worked together for years.
I was lucky enough to get to sit down and talk with both of them about their approach to pizza making as well as their history together.
That's why I love this episode and I'm so excited to share it with you.
I also had the chance to hang out with Patsy for this Cooking Channel web series I did years ago called you'd're Eating It Wrong.
I showed Patsy my, like, inside out pizza fold and the crust removal and all my silly techniques, and he shot every single one of them down exactly as you would want him to.
Although he did say that when a slice of pizza is very hot, it's acceptable to use a knife and fork to eat the first half of the slice if it's too hot to pick up.
I do want to note that some of the details in this episode I later fact checked with Scott Wiener of Scott's Pizza Tours, who is pretty much the world's foremost authority on pizza, some of the details of the early 1900s and Patsy's uncle and where he worked.
It might not all be true.
Some of it is a little bit legend, but the bottom line is that Patsy Grimaldi was really one of the last living links to the very early days of pizza in America.
And so it's sad that he's gone, but his legacy lives on in his current pizzeria, Giuliana's, and all of the imitators that are out there as well.
So I hope you'll enjoy this episode.
Now, as a reminder, if there's an episode of the Sporkful you want us to pull out of the deep freezer to reheat, let us know.
Drop me a line@helloporkful.com, tell me your name, location, which episode you'd like us to reheat and why, and we would be happy to do that for you.
Thanks so much.
Enjoy my conversation with the Grimaldi's.
This is the Sporkful.