Detroit-Style + Sfincione Research - Pizza Project - December 2022
I'm not *exactly* sure how I recently came across this new (to me) pizza style, but it sure has my attention. What style is that? I suppose the widest birth name-wise I can give it is: Sfincione. It is a version (most often) of something similar to a Sicilian or Grandma pizza. Tweaked. Kenji @ Serious Eats has done his thing with it and calls it "New Years Pizza" . It is characterized by a light, hole-filled dough that is crisp/fried on the bottom. Sauce on top. And...finished with the crunch of breadcrumbs. That recipe is, however, NOT where I started on this pizza journey rabbit hole. Nope. It was earlier this year when I read that a pizza pop-up from Nashville (of all places) was coming to town to participate in a Chicago pizza festival. That place is St. Vito Focacceria. Well...that's interesting, I thought. I didn't attend said fest. But, I've been sitting on this Instagram post from subbu arumugam about St. Vito for months as I thought