It is, indeed, thee day we celebrate this glorious food and I'm going to chow down on some monster chunk of pizza tonight or my name's not Benjamin Basile!
I know you love pizza too. If you don't, there's just no hope for you.
Being Sicilian, I come by my love of pizza honestly. As you many know, pizza in any part of Italy is not at all like the pizza we've come to love here in the States.
Many would describe it as primitive. Overly simple. Lacking in character, deficient in taste....
What you'd most likely find in any restaurant serving pizza in "the old country" would be a simple but tasty dough, stretched out on a real wooden peel, topped with a modest amount of good, hearty tomato sauce... here's the part that's hard to swallow, so to speak: it may or may not be topped with cheese!
And if it is, a bit of fresh basil--fresh, meaning not chopped to pieces--may well be the only topping other than sauce and (maybe) cheese. An excellent quality cheese and basil, but you can see what I meant about authentic Italian pizza and American pizza being quite different.
Well, regardless of what your idea of what pizza should be like may be, I hope you get to observe National Pizza Day properly... That is, by getting some in yer belly!
Getting mighty hungry in O'do, I am,
Benjamin Basile
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