I live somewhere in the tristate area around NYC. I have what's known as New York style pizza. The pizza hot spot I would say would be around NYC, East Philadelphia, and Northern New Jersey (not sure about Maine). If you move a couple states out you don't get as good pizza (outside of "craft pizza" that you get served in some restaurants that aren't Italian based, blech).
I'm mainly talking about pizzerias, but even chain pizza like Dominos or Pizza Hut doesn't have that quality that pizzeria pizza has. To be fair I haven 't tried Dominos Pizza after the revamp with the recipe, mainly because I didn't need to.
I understand that pizza is typically better in NYC because of the years of Italian immigrants that was embedded into the NYC culture. I just don't understand why pizza tastes so terrible outside of this hot spot. Is it something to do with the sauce? Not enough olive oil? Too thin of a crust? That kind of thing.
I'm mainly talking about pizzerias, but even chain pizza like Dominos or Pizza Hut doesn't have that quality that pizzeria pizza has. To be fair I haven 't tried Dominos Pizza after the revamp with the recipe, mainly because I didn't need to.
I understand that pizza is typically better in NYC because of the years of Italian immigrants that was embedded into the NYC culture. I just don't understand why pizza tastes so terrible outside of this hot spot. Is it something to do with the sauce? Not enough olive oil? Too thin of a crust? That kind of thing.