Pizza Recipes Biography
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Dominick DeAngelis was born and raised in a small working-class town of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area of northeastern Pennsylvania. His mother was an Italian immigrant who journeyed to the United States at the age of seventeen. His father is a second generation Italian-American. There is probably no place in the country, or maybe the world, where there are more pizza places per capita than the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area; on just one street over from where Dominick grew up, there were four pizzerias on the same road within a one mile stretch. They all had a successful business because each pizzeria made their own distinctive style of pizza.
Dominick's obsession with pizza is life long, and the area where he grew up exposed him to a vast array of different types of pizza. For the past twenty-nine years since his childhood, he has taken that experience to develop a collection of his own original recipes, with emphasis on the development of his master dough recipe.
Dominick's formal training is not in the culinary field, but in engineering. However, anyone who knows him will tell you that he is a bona-fide pizza maker. He holds a bachelor's degree from The Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree from Villanova University, and a Ph.D. from The University of Pennsylvania, all in mechanical engineering. He has mechanical design experience from the aerospace, medical, semiconductor and metrology industries, and is also a licensed professional engineer. He resides in the suburban "Main Line" area of Philadelphia with his wife, two daughters and son.
"To do a cookbook on pizza making the-right-way requires a dedication to pizza as intense as a Ph.D. degree in engineering."If you like ordering pizza from your local pizzeria, you'll love making it at home. No pizza will ever taste as fresh as it does when you eat it straight from your own oven. This article gives instructions on how to make hot, fresh pizza the fast way, or from scratch. Scroll to the bottom for a section on popular toppings combinations.What to do when your 8-year old nephew comes to visit? Make pizza, of course! Well, not of course, actually. I didn’t think of it until we exhausted Sorry, Monopoly, and gin rummy. But it did turn out to be a brilliant idea as dad had just received a baking stone for Christmas, and my nephew Austin loves pizza. I told him if he helped me make it and didn’t make too many faces I would put him on my website and he would be famous. That seemed to get his attention. He thought the dough was “slimy and gross” but he loved picking his own toppings, and the finished product was “awesome”. The following method I patched together from recipes in both Joy of Cooking and Cook’s Illustrated’s The Best Recipe. I made two batches of dough, four pizzas in all, with varied toppings. Next time I’ll be a bit more patient with stretching out the dough so I can get it even thinner. Look to the end of this post for some excellent links about pizza from other food bloggers.
pizza box (large). Many pizza restaurants will provide a set of boxes because they appreciate the fact that you might put out the word to students' parents about the pizzeria's generosity. If you use real pizza boxes, students might glue white drawing paper to the top to cover up advertising. Or you might spray paint over the advertising so students have a white surface to write and draw on.
Internet and/or library access
construction paper
note cards, paper, pens, pencils
markers, colored paper, paint, glue, and other art supplies
The Lesson
This lesson can be used as an alternative to "typical" biography reports. The activity can be used any time of year, but is an especially nice way to recognize special events such as Black History Month, Women's History Month, or Discoverer's Day.
Research
First, have students select a famous person about whom they would like to write a biography. After they have chosen a subject, students use library or Internet resources to research the life of that person. For students in grades 4 and above, this activity is an excellent time to teach note-taking skills. Older students also should create a bibliography.
Constructing a Pizza Biography
The pizza biography includes three elements:
The Box Top. Here, students introduce the topic of the biography. The box top is the place they can get creative with a fun title and slogan, lettering, illustrations/photos. Among the creative things students can do is highlight a few of the most important facts about the person. (They might, for example, record them in the kind of "burst slogans" -- such as The Best Pizza in Town! -- often seen on pizza boxes.) One student wrote on his pizza cover Hand-Tossed by in the spot where the student-authors were to record their names.
Inside the Box Top. Here students write a "[insert name of famous person] fact sheet." Decide in advance how many facts students should record on the inside of the box top. (I had my students record 50 facts - "no less, no more.") Some students recorded each fact on a pizza bread stick illustration!
The Pizza. Now to the real meat of the lesson! This is where students write the actual reports about the famous person they have researched. Each slice of pizza represents what would be a paragraph in students' biography reports; each slice includes at least three sentences related to a single topic/theme in the famous person's life. If you teach older students -- and if you are trying to teach the concept of supporting detail -- students might write the topic sentence along the crust of the pizza and write each supporting detail on a slice of pepperoni. Decide in advance how many slices (paragraphs) the pizza must include (depending on the age of your students). Younger students might write eight "slices," for example; older students might create 12, 16, or more slices. If students run out of space on the pizza box, they can layer new slices (pages) on top of others to create a pizza slice "book."
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