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• Feb 9, 2022

65 wholesome pizza writing prompts for your time

These pizzalicious ideas are exactly what you knead—sorry, need—for shaping your creativity

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It’s Pizza Day on 9 February, which means it’s just the occasion to get your dose of this cheesy pie.

But don’t just savour your pizza.

Write about it, too.

Tap into every nook and cranny of your piece to mine the most flavourful ideas from them all.

I’ve done that for three crucial scenes in my book PiKu & ViRu . ( Buy/download, read, and review it here ; it’s FREE on Kindle Unlimited!) And my first one for ReadersDigest.in , too, revolves around this gorgeous dish. Read it here .

It’s your turn now to get your story cookin’!

To make the process easier, I’ve created this list of 65 pizza writing prompts .

The idea is to have your own pizza story or movie in no time.

Give these a try, and you’re sure to have platefuls to write about!

Pen a play on the autobiography of pizza .

Make your story’s protagonist have a dream pizza and give them a quest around it. The pizza could be at a particular restaurant or destination or of the protagonist’s own recipe.

Write an essay on your first-ever pizza . When and where did you lose your pizza virginity and to which pie?

Review your most expensive pizza experience. Was it worth the splurge?

Get crackin’ on your pizza bucket list .

Bang out a poem on your most memorable pizza .

Pay homage to the best pizza you’ve ever had.

Rant about the worst pizza you’ve ever sunk your teeth into.

If you could add only 3 toppings to your pizza, what would they be? Record your results.

What’s your choice of dessert pizza ? Share your thoughts and, if you can, a recipe.

Outline your plans for next year’s Pizza Day .

Write an ode to pizza .

Document your life lessons and takeaways from pizza.

Collect pizza facts and stats .

Get clear about your favourite pizza crust . Is it thin, thick, deep-dish, or cheese-burst?

Pizza with cutlery or your hands ? Dump your thoughts.

What do you like to eat with your pizza ? Crank out a list.

What do you like to drink with your pizza? This would make for a great pizza-pairing article!

Work out a relationship or love story between a pizza lover and hater

Your weirdest pizza ? Devote a blog post to it.

The best time for pizza? While every time is a good time for pizza, a social media post from you on your opinion about this would be exactly what the doctor ordered.

The best place for pizza? Blog about it. It could be a restaurant or destination.

The best event or atmosphere for pizza? (Pizza at sunset, anyone?) Share a handwritten note with photos, if you can arrange for them.

Would you cut pizza on your birthday instead of cake? Or would you order a pizza-themed cake? Pizzalicious Instagram post coming up.

Pen down a story about a pizza chef …

…or a pizza dough spinner (if such a profession exists—else, create one, WTH)…

…or a pizza delivery person

If you could be in the pizza business , what role would you like to play? Interview yourself on this.

The most important component in a pizza and why. Here’s a food article coming up. Speak to various pizza experts for their input.

Have you tried vegan pizza ? How was it? Tell the world about it.

Conjure a nail-biting thriller on pizza thefts .

How do you like your pizza? Sauce-loaded, cheesy, sweet, or spicy ? Get complete clarity on this.

Your go-to pizza for first dates ? Time for a relationships-meets-pizza piece.

Create a pizza mystery .

Script a video on your favourite pizza movie scene and what makes it special.

What’s your favourite pizza moment in a book ? Do a compilation if there are more.

If you could create a reality show around pizza, what would it be like? Bang out a concept note.

Or it could be a pizza anthology . Maybe see how you can get a book out of it

Create a pizza billionaire character.

What if pizza was pitted against another food —say, burger? Which one would win the battle ? A short story on this would be unputdownable!

Build a story around a dating app that matches people based on their pizza tastes.

Create a list of must-try pizzas from around the world. Which one would qualify from India?

Aim to come up with a list of 100 different pizza varieties . See which one you’d like to work with for your story.

Create a “which pizza are you” quiz .

Which pizzas would you serve at your wedding ? Come up with a menu.

Think of a pizza-themed event, wedding, or party.

Protagonist, antagonist, and one pizza slice —who wins? There’s your short film.

What if pizza becomes a dessert or ice-cream flavour ? How would that happen? Bring out a recipe.

Coin another term for pizza. Use it in your next WIP.

A town that has never heard of pizza . What happens when its denizens taste pizza for the first time? Do they come up with their own name for it? This could be a nice children’s tale.

How would your veg and non-veg fiction couple share their pizza? What sort of conflicts would they face in the process?

Write a story about a house or city built entirely of pizza .

What kind of pizzeria would you like to open? Create a plan or proposal.

What happens when a human character turns into pizza ? How does it happen? What would their fate be like? Would they return to their human form or get eaten like pizza in the end?

Show a political party with pizza as their symbol . Will they see the success they’re eyeing?

Would pizza be the hero, villain, love interest, sidekick, or genie in your story? What would the character arc look like?

What happens when two characters’ pizza orders are mixed up ? Do we see a romance brewing here? Or is it a thriller in the making?

Create your dream pizzeria menu .

Share a fusion pizza recipe.

Write a thank-you and appreciation note for pizza delivery people.

Copywrite a spec ad for your favourite pizza or pizzeria.

Present the history of pizza in an interesting way—maybe as a timeline or a biopic.

Plot your own pizza movie scene ; see this list of iconic Hollywood ones for your inspiration.

Create your own pizza quotes and puns.

Take some of your favourite memes and give them a pizza spin.

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by Melissa Donovan | Mar 24, 2020 | Creative Writing Prompts | 4 comments

Creative writing prompts that are good enough to eat.

Today’s post features a selection of prompts from 1200 Creative Writing Prompts . Enjoy!

We all want our writing to be compelling, even mesmerizing. One effective way to captivate readers is to engage their senses.

When you engage a reader’s sense of sight, smell, sound, touch, or taste, you illicit a physiological response to your writing, and the reader will connect with it on a deeper, sensory level.

Food is a fantastic way to stimulate readers’ senses, because food has the rare ability to affect any or all of the senses. We see food, smell it, touch it, and taste it. We even hear it. Just think about french fries sizzling in a greasy skillet. Mmm.

Writing about food or incorporating food into our writing are ideal ways to engage readers’ senses. That’s why today’s creative writing prompts focus on food, drink, and delectable treats.

Creative Writing Prompts — Good Enough to Eat

Choose one of the creative writing prompts below and write a story, a poem, an essay, or a journal entry. Try to convey each of the five senses in whatever you write (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch).

• Write about a banana split: three scoops of ice cream with banana halves on either side and a big mound of whipped cream on top laced with chocolate sauce and sprinkled with chopped nuts—all topped off with a plump red cherry.
• After a light but satisfying meal, you order dessert. It’s rich, sweet, and freshly baked. You bite into it and your taste buds explode with delight.
• Write about the smell of cheesy, doughy, saucy, spicy pizza baking in the oven.
• You dip your chip into a bowl of salsa, and when you take a bite, your mouth goes up in red-hot flames.
• Write about the fizzing sound of cola being poured into a glass full of ice cubes.
• You’re feeling under the weather, so you put the teapot on. Soon it starts to scream.
• Write about the taste of medicine: cherry-flavored cough syrup.
• Describe a grand feast: the spread of a holiday meal.
• Write about waking up to the smell of hot, freshly brewed coffee.
• It’s Halloween and you’re bobbing for apples. You stick your face in the cool water, chomp around searching for purchase, and feel the apples bumping against your face and floating away from you. Then you get a ripe little apple lodged firmly between your teeth.
• Write about the sound in your head when you munch on crispy chips or crunchy crackers.
• You’re digging your fingers through a box of hot, buttered, salted popcorn in a dark movie theater.
• Write about the squishy sensation of kneading dough between your fingers and the smooth texture of it when you pat it and roll it out.
• There’s a big bowl of chilled, fresh summer fruit in the fridge. It’s colorful, juicy, and sweet.
• You’re driving through town with your windows down, and you pass that intersection where you can smell all the fast food restaurants.

Did you find these creative writing prompts helpful or challenging? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment. And keep writing!

Very motivational tips, thanks Melissa, but now I want an oven baked pizza for lunch!

Thanks, Anna. Pizza always sounds good to me!

I like that these prompts are also vegetarian-friendly 🙂

I like that someone noticed!

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5 writing prompts: magical pizza edition.

Here's a slice of inspiration for you. Five writing prompts involving magical pizza.

🍕 Writing Prompt 1: The Enchanted Pizza Parlor

Imagine a quaint little pizzeria in your town that claims to serve "enchanted" pizzas. At first, everyone thinks it's just a gimmick, but when you order a slice, you find yourself transported to another realm.

Describe your journey, the world you enter, and the adventure that awaits with each bite.

(Just don't forget to tip the delivery dragon!)

🍕 Writing Prompt 2: The Pizza of Wishes

A struggling wizard accidentally invents a pizza that grants the eater one wish per slice. The wizard decides to open a pizza shop, and chaos ensues as people’s wishes come true in unexpected ways.

Write a story about the different wishes made by customers and the wizard’s attempt to control the mayhem.

(Careful what you wish for, especially if you ask for extra cheese!)

🍕 Writing Prompt 3: Slice of Time

You discover an old, dusty pizza recipe book in your attic. Following one of the recipes, you bake a pizza that allows you to time travel when you eat it.

Write about the different historical eras you visit with each slice and the challenges you face trying to get back to your own time.

(Pepperoni and paradoxes, anyone?)

🍕 Writing Prompt 4: Pizza of Power

In a world where everyone has magical abilities, a legendary pizza is said to enhance one's powers to extraordinary levels. However, this pizza is guarded by a fierce creature in a mystical forest.

Write about the quest to find this pizza, the trials faced, and the ultimate showdown with the guardian.

(Is it worth the risk for a slice that might make you invincible, or just incredibly full?)

🍕 Writing Prompt 5: The Curse of the Pizza Stone

A famous chef finds an ancient pizza stone that is said to be cursed. Anyone who uses it to bake a pizza will experience strange and supernatural occurrences.

Write a story about the chef’s decision to use the stone, the eerie events that follow, and how they unravel the mystery of the curse.

(Think twice before you slice!)

Hope you're writing is extra cheesy!

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Pesto Pizza With Fresh Veggies

Make a delicious sourdough crust topped with a creamy homemade pesto sauce and fresh veggies. (via Barley & Sage )

Chicken Enchilada Pizza

This chicken enchilada pie from our friends at How Sweet It Is will challenge everything you thought you knew about pizza. It’s a pizza awakening. (via How Sweet It Is )

BBQ Chicken Pizza

Sweet and tangy, this pizza features grilled chicken breast, smoked gouda, and onions layered on top of bbq sauce. (via Feel Good Foodie )

Veggie Pizza

Get your daily veggies in with this healthy pizza recipe you can make in just 15 minutes. (via Culinary Hill )

Truffled Mushroom Naan Pizza

This simple naan-crusted pizza elevates your old standby vegetarian pizza with truffle oil, mushrooms, and fontina. (via Salt & Lavender )

Bacon and Brussel Sprouts Pizza

Top this flavorful pie with goat cheese, Brussel sprouts slaw, bacon and caramelized onions. (via RachL Mansfield )

Fig Prosciutto Pizza

Make this tangy-sweet pie on the grill or in the oven. (via A Spicy Perspective )

Spicy Chorizo Pizza

Get dinner on the table in just 30 mins with this pizza topped with a delicious mix of caramelized onions, chorizo, and goat cheese. (via The Endless Meal )

Pepperoncini and Onion Vegetarian Pizza

Whip up a simple red sauce and top with melty mozzarella cheese, red onions, pepperoncini, and delicious garlic for a unique pie you'll come back to again and again. (via Cozy Cravings )

BBQ Ranch Rainbow Pizza

Making up this rainbow is yellow squash, bell pepper, watermelon radish, oyster mushrooms, avocado and delicious BBQ sauce. (via Chef Bai Kitchen )

Vegan Pesto Zucchini And Pineapple Pizza

Are you in the pineapple-on-pizza camp? Then this one is for you. (via Two Spoons )

Cauliflower Crust Breakfast Pizza

According to the Internet, pizza for breakfast is a thing. And we’re on board. Check out this cauliflower crust breakfast pizza and see why. (via Brit + Co. )

Roasted Root Vegetable Pizza

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A good pizza should showcase the season’s greatest goods — and, as we draw more closely to winter, this roasted root vegetable pizza does just that. (via Martha Stewart )

Potato, Brussels Sprouts, and Goat Cheese Pizza

And then some genius went ahead and put some potatoes on a pizza. This pie by Heather Christo also calls for shredded Brussels sprouts and big, fat dollops of creamy goat cheese. (via Heather Christo )

Short Rib, Brie, Ricotta Pizza

I’m sure you’ve heard of four-cheese pizza, but this version from the folks at The Hopeless Housewife also calls for braised short ribs, taking this pretty pie to a whole new level. (via The Hopeless Housewife )

Beet & Hummus Flatbread with Arugula

Tomato sauce is so pedestrian. This flatbread from In Pursuit of More uses hummus instead — and to great ends! Topped also with roasted beets and fresh, peppery arugula, this vegan pizza is so full of good things, you won’t even miss the cheese. (via In Pursuit of More )

Korean Pizza

Here's a veggie twist on traditional Korean pizzas with BBQ pulled “pork” mushrooms and Korean classics, like kimchi, gochujang, kimchi mayo, and cilantro. (via Live Eat Learn )

Broccoli Rabe Burrata Pizza

We never met a burrata [insert meal] we didn't like. This pizza is divine! (via Half Baked Harves t)

Serrano Salami Honey Pizza

Serrano peppers, salami, honey, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella, oh my! (via Cilantro Parsle y)

Vegan Strawberry Basil Balsamic Pizza

This one had us at hazelnut ricotta! (via Olive You Whole )

This genius hybrid from Food Network is the love child of Mr. Taco and Mrs. Pizza. Yes, that is sour cream. And, yes, you are going to love it. ( Food Network )

Butternut Squash, Sage Pesto, and Prosciutto Pizza

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Poutine Pizza

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Pumpkin Naan Pizza with Gruyere and Fresh Herbs

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Caramelized Butternut, Crispy Kale, and Fontina Pizza

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Macaroni and Cheese Pizza

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Skillet Pizza

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Thanksgiving Flatbread

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Broccoli and Cheese Breakfast Pizza

Start the day with a crispy tortilla pizza topped with soft scrambled eggs, steamed broccoli, and shredded cheese. Single serve makes them perfect for one or a crowd! (via Pink Owl Kitchen)

Cookies and Creme Dessert Pizza

And then there was dessert pizza . Because the best thing to eat after eating pizza is, clearly, more pizza. Celebrate your pizza loyalty by skipping the cookies and the ice cream — and keeping it real with this cookies and crème creation (via Girl Versus Dough)

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Pizza is a thing we share. More than other meals it brings a sense of togetherness.

I loved to make pizza. From forming the dough, to rolling it out, to layering it with toppings, to the fragrance that came from its baking. It made the house a home. It was mom's love on a plate.

I'm a sucker for Greek pizza, the feta and the olives are magical. If all I ever got to it was that, I'd be very happy.

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Happy faces, happy munching, pizza night was always a good time.

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Persuasive Writing Interactive (Design Your Own Pizza)

Updated:  09 Sep 2023

Explore persuasive writing with this fun pizza-themed interactive activity.

Editable:  PowerPoint, Google Slides

Pages:  1 Page

• Curriculum Curriculum:  AUS V9

Years:  3 - 5

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🍕 Pizza Persuasive Writing Prompt – Design Your Own Pizza!

This fun and engaging persuasive writing activity is the perfect way to get your students thinking about persuading their audience with their writing. Who doesn’t love pizza? And with so many toppings to pick – creating your own delicious pizza is the perfect way to get kids excited about writing!

This interactive activity includes the following slides:

• Pizza design brainstorm.
• Pick a pizza, give it a good name, and write about why you think that pizza is the best using persuasive language and phrases.
• Make the pizza using the provided topping pieces.
• Persuasive writing planning – Write three reasons why your design is the best.
• Think about an introduction and conclusion.
• The final piece of writing.
• Persuasive writing checklist.

How to Differentiate this Activity

Differentiating this activity can accommodate your class’s various learning styles, abilities, and interests. Here are some suggestions for differentiating this persuasive writing activity.

• You may like to use paper-based planning with some students. We have a range of persuasive writing templates that may work.
• Vocabulary support: list relevant vocabulary words and phrases related to pizza, persuasive writing, and pizza topping descriptions. This can help struggling writers with a base.
• Allow kids to work in pairs or small groups to brainstorm and plan their persuasive text.
• Provide an alternative topic for those who may not like pizza.
• Offer optional extension activities for advanced students who finish early, such as comparing and contrasting different types of pizza or coming up with an ad campaign for the pizza they created.

Download and Persuade Today!

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The Complete List of Words to Describe Pizza that Will Make You a Food Critic

By: the PROs

July 8, 2023

Words to Describe Pizza

Are you in search of words to describe pizza? 

Creating a pizza description seems like a relatively simple thing to do. You’re good to go by listing all the ingredients and toppings.  

Well, not quite!

Writing the perfect pizza description is an art; it takes a lot of effort to write those descriptions right. 

So to help you out, here’s a list of all words to describe pizza that we could think of to help you write a perfect pizza description.

Let’s check them out!

Here’s What You Will Find:

How to write a pizza description.

Create a pizza description so that it leaves them salivating and wanting more. An ideal pizza description is a short one that explains the pizza dish and, ultimately, makes the reader want to ask for it.

Avoid long, incomprehensible food descriptions that confuse the reader about the dish. 

Use terms to describe the color of toppings , pizza crust, pizza texture, sauces, cheese, the smell of cheese, especially when using blue-veined cheese, and the dough structure, and if you want to upscale your pizza description, we’ll show you how to describe pizza in a fancy way. 

Whether you’re a pizza connoisseur or just someone who loves a good slice, this video will satisfy your craving for all things pizza.

So grab a slice and join us as we explore the tasty world of pizza vocabulary.

When choosing words to describe pizza, you must include descriptive terms for:

• Pizza Dough 
• General Appearance
• Garnishes and Finishes

For details on correctly writing a pizza description, check our article 7 Steps on How to Describe Pizza .

Let us explore words to use when addressing the above pizza aspects.

Describing pizza and the general appearance of a pizza, write the color of the toppings used, the size of the pizza, the state of the pizza as it comes off the grill , the size of the pizza, and the cooking method. For example:

• Stone-oven fresh-baked pizza describes the appearance as fresh and the cooking method. 
• Mini pizza shows that it has a small general appearance. 
• Hot pizza tells you that it is sizzling hot. 
• Colorful pizza often describes the toppings used. 

For instance, a Sicilian pizza is described as bright since its toppings include tomatoes, purple onions, anchovies, and herbs, which are colorful. 

Soggy pizza represents one with too many toppings or a pizza whose toppings may not have been pre-cooked, resulting in excess moisture. 

Ingredients contribute to the general appearance, such as the Hawaiian pizza, which is easily identified due to the pineapple toppings. 

The Sicilian pizza, for instance, is described as a square cut since it appears in square cuttings and not the traditional triangle ones. 

Similarly, the St.Louis pizza slices are called ‘party’ or ‘tavern’ cuts since they are sliced in 3 or 4 inc rectangular shapes.

Here’s a comprehensive word list and a list of adjectives commonly used to use to describe pizza.

Pizza Adjectives

Words to Describe Pizza Dough

The description of pizza dough ranges from its consistency to its texture. The smooth dough is used when a lumpy mass gradually smoothness to form a slightly tacky surface to touch. 

Pizza dough is soft textured and foldable when made using flour with about 13 to 14% protein content and roughly 2 % oil in the dough mixture. 

Well-kneaded pizza does not stick on the fingers during kneading but has a velvety smoothness and is impossibly stretchy. 

Stiff pizza dough is incredibly silky since the gluten content strengthens, making it hard and hard to stretch. 

Other forms of pizza dough include sourdough and gluten-free pizza dough.

Types of pizza dough for a freshly baked cooked pizza include:

•   New York Style Dough

It is made with all-purpose bread flour and brown sugar to caramelize the base, thus giving it a distinct texture.

• Neapolitan Style Dough

Pizza made using this style has its dough subjected to scorching temperatures for an easy stretch out and a nice charred bottom. Its texture allows it to absorb more water than other crusts without getting soggy.

Here’s a list of words to describe pizza dough.

List of Words to Describe Pizza Dough

Words to describe pizza crust.

The pizza crust is the hardened exterior surface that is the foundation of the pizza. 

A pizza crust can be cheese-stuffed, wheat-thin crust, especially on light, healthier pizza options. 

Or it can also be raised-edge thick-crusted pizza like the one on a Chicago pizza, crispy out crust as seen in the New York Style, a crunchy crust characteristic of the Sicilian pizza. 

Other words to describe the crust are homemade, thick, and chewy, such as a Greek-style pizza, thick extra crispy crust featured on the Detroit Pizza, and cracker-like thin crust as seen on the St.Louis pizza. 

Pizza crusts can also be a thin medium crust, charred crust as seen on the New Haven pizza, and a sweet thin crust where ingredients such as malt and molasses are used in the dough.

The vegan-friendly pizza crust is featured on specific variations of the Neapolitan pizza since it contains no animal by-products. 

Here’s a list of words to describe pizza crust.

List of Words to Describe Pizza Crust

• Distinctive
• Indigestible
• Mouth-Watering
• Refrigerated
• Traditional

Words to Describe Pizza Smell

The aroma of a fresh slice of pizza is appealing and results in nose drools! 

It derives its smell from the combination of ingredients used; some are more prominent than others. 

A spicy pizza has an appetizing, aromatic, distinctive smell, primarily when oregano is used, and a fiery smell where the toppings are lots of chili flakes. 

A fragrant, cheesy aroma is achieved after immediately removing the pizza from the grill. 

Warm sensuous, and exotic, sultry smells are present where ingredients are exotic and tantalizing to taste. 

Pizza cooked in a traditional oven tends to have a smoky scent, while pizza topped with fruits and herbs such as sultanas, thyme leaves, rosemary, basil, and the like tends to adopt a minty or fruity smell.

Pizzas adopt most of their smell from the type of cheese used to make them. Blue veined cheeses such as English Stilton, French Roquefort, and Italian Gorgonzola provide a distinct smell to your pizza. 

They are soft, creamy, and crumbly and give the pizza a sweet, pungent smell derived from the mold and bacteria that promote their growth.

Here’s a list of words to describe the pizza smell.

List of Words to Describe Pizza Smell

• Aroma 
• Intoxicating
• Overpowering 
• Stench 
• Sweet 
• Sweet-Smelling

Words to Describe Pizza Sauce

Pizza sauces are described in terms of color and taste. Describe a tomato garlic sauce with bright red color with a tangy taste. 

Other words include barely scalded tomato sauce in lightly browned garlic, slow-cooked tomato garlic sauce, and a ‘dark, complex’ garlic-flavored tomato sauce for thoroughly cooked sauce variations. 

The New York Style pizza sauce is easily described as an uncooked, unprocessed, fresh, bright, fat-free herby sauce. Any terms used to describe the sauce can be added or removed depending on your taste.

A good puree sauce is described as a dark deep red sauce or a blended, sweet, hearty sauce. 

Peppery red sauces represent ingredients such as red pepper, cayenne, black pepper, and red pepper flakes. 

These spicy sauces work best with savory-tasting pizzas with chicken steak, bacon, or mushrooms . 

Sweet pizza sauces are those with tomatoes and added brown sugar. However, they are not meant for salty and savory pizzas unless combined with other sauces. 

Ranch sauces are easily described as tangy and creamy buttery tasting. Alfredo sauce goes well with a creamy, cheesy, flavorful description, as it has lots of heavy cream and cheese in its white sauce.

Depending on taste, it may be tricky to describe sauces since people’s taste definitions vary. Using ingredient descriptions is a safer way to navigate it as it is logical and ideal.

Here’s a list of words to describe pizza sauce.

List of Words to Describe Pizza Sauce

• Acidic   
• Bland   
• Citrusy 
• Decadent       
• Delicious        
• Eggy    
• Flavorful          
• Fruity    
• Mouthwatering
• Peppery         
• Refreshing      
• Salty     
• Scrumptious 
• Sinful   
• Sour     
• Sumptuous   
• Tangy  
• Yummy          

Words to Describe Cheese

Everyone adores stringy cheese on pizza, right?

Cheese is the one thing that can elevate your pizza’s taste and presentation, but describing cheese might not be an easy task.

The two most essential aspects you can describe cheese besides its flavor are meltability and stretchiness. meltability is the ability of the cheese to melt over the pizza, while stretchiness is the ability of the cheese to stretch when pulled. Also known as the “cheese pull.”

When describing cheese, consider its appearance, smell, and, most importantly, flavor.

Here’s a list to describe pizza cheese.

List of Words to Describe Cheese

• Calico 
• Crumbly 
• Danish 
• Famous 
• Mottled  
• Shredded 
• Sticky  
• Swiss Gassy
• Well Balanced   

Words to Describe Pizza Texture

Textural variations in pizzas  are first perceived on touch and later in the mouth. 

Elasticity is measured by applying vertical pressure on the pizza by hand. A hard, firm, rigid, supple, rubbery textured pizza is resistant to deformation and does not spring back. 

A stiff/brittle textured pizza is difficult to tear into two. Delicate, soft, and moist textured pizzas are resistant to tear along the middle upon folding a slice with toppings. 

Easy-to-chew pizzas are melt-in-the-mouth, creamy soft, rubbery, airy, brioche-like, and firm. Pizzas with a crumble feel upon chewing are best termed gritty, crumbly, friable, and have an over-filling texture. 

Sticky pizza is best described as dry, doughy, spongy, or soupy. A very greasy slice is called fatty, greasy, or oily, while not enough butter is termed dry or with a cardboard texture.

Here’s a list of words to describe pizza texture:

List of Words to Describe Pizza Texture

• Airy             
• Crisp     
• Fluffy   
• Juicy     
• Melty   
• Runny  
• Soft       
• Sticky   
• Tough  

Words to Describe Pizza in A Fancy Way

Fancy pizza slang is commonly used by pizza lovers, where whimsical terms describe toppings and pizza styles. Here is a sample of how to describe your pizza in a fancy way:

• Party/Tavern cut-  as shown earliest, the terms describe a circular pizza sliced into square portions. Common at parties such as the Super Bowl.
• All-dressed pizza – Common in Montreal and came in a deluxe pie topped with mushrooms, pepperoni , and green peppers. It is commonly known as the pizza tout garnie in Quebec.
• Guppies -alternative description for the fish toppings such as anchovies. They are also called carp or anchovies.
• Screamers – a fancy term to describe mushroom toppings since the canned variety produces a squeal while releasing moisture on a hot surface.
• Coastline – the term used to describe the exposed sauce between the crust and filler sauce.
• Mutz – the term is used to describe fresh mozzarella.
• Grandma pie  – A pizza style that adopts a thick Sicilian-like pie but has a denser, thinner crust.

The Last Slice

We hope you have learned new words to describe pizza and what terms and descriptions to use while describing the texture, smell, sauces, crusts, and pizza dough. 

Now here’s what we want you to do. Make a pizza or buy it, for that matter. Taste it. Or, maybe think about the last thing you ate.

Now take fifteen minutes to describe it to a reader using the abovementioned words.

How does it look?

How does it smell? What does the texture feel like?

Use the words according to the result you get after tasting and judging the pizza. Share your comments below or post them on social media. Share your descriptions with friends and family.

Let us know the results; we would love to know.

You may also like our pizza glossary to find the definition of the most popular pizza words.

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How to describe pizza?

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What Makes Pizza So Irresistible?

Pizza is one of the most beloved comfort foods around the world. This delightful dish is made up of a crispy crust, tangy tomato sauce, and gooey melted cheese, making it a delicious and satisfying meal. The combination of flavors and textures in pizza is what makes it so irresistible to people of all ages.

Whether you prefer a classic Margherita, a spicy pepperoni, or a loaded veggie pizza, there’s no denying that the appeal of pizza lies in its versatility. From the thin, crispy crust of Italian-style pizzas to the thick, chewy crust of American-style pizzas, there’s a pizza for everyone’s taste.

The Anatomy of a Perfect Pizza

A perfect pizza starts with a well-made crust. The ideal pizza crust should be crispy on the outside, yet soft and chewy on the inside. It should provide the perfect base for the sauce, cheese, and toppings to shine. The sauce should be tangy and flavorful, without overpowering the other components of the pizza. The cheese should be gooey and stretchy, adding a rich, creamy texture to every bite. And of course, the toppings should be fresh, flavorful, and generous, adding a burst of color and taste to the pizza.

How to Describe Pizza to Someone

When describing pizza to someone, it’s important to focus on the sensory experience. Talk about the aroma of the freshly baked crust, the vibrant colors of the toppings, the gooey cheese stretching with every bite, and the explosion of flavors in every mouthful. Describe the crust as crispy, the sauce as tangy, and the cheese as creamy. Use evocative language to paint a mouth-watering picture of the pizza.

Common Questions About Describing Pizza

1. What is the best way to describe the taste of pizza?

When describing the taste of pizza, you can use words like savory, tangy, rich, and flavorful. Emphasize the combination of textures and flavors, such as the crispy crust, the creamy cheese, and the zesty sauce.

2. How can I describe the aroma of pizza?

The aroma of pizza can be described as warm, savory, and inviting. It should evoke images of a bustling pizzeria, with the scent of fresh-baked dough and bubbling cheese filling the air.

3. What are the best adjectives to describe the texture of pizza?

When describing the texture of pizza, use words like crispy, chewy, and gooey. These adjectives help to convey the satisfying and comforting nature of pizza.

4. How do I describe the appearance of pizza?

When describing the appearance of pizza, focus on the vibrant colors of the toppings, the golden-brown crust, and the bubbling cheese. Use words like colorful, appetizing, and mouth-watering to paint a vivid picture.

5. What are some creative ways to describe pizza?

You can use metaphors and similes to describe pizza, such as “a symphony of flavors” or “a burst of sunshine on a plate.” These creative descriptions can help to capture the magic of pizza.

6. How can I convey the experience of eating pizza?

When describing the experience of eating pizza, talk about the sensory pleasure of each bite, the satisfaction of the chewy crust, the gooey stretch of the cheese, and the burst of flavors from the toppings.

7. What are some specific details to include when describing pizza?

Include details about the type of crust, the variety of toppings, and the type of cheese used. You can also mention any unique or special ingredients that make the pizza stand out.

8. How do I make my description of pizza more engaging?

To make your description of pizza more engaging, use vivid language, sensory details, and descriptive adjectives. Paint a picture that makes the reader feel like they can taste the pizza themselves.

9. What words should I avoid when describing pizza?

Avoid using bland and generic adjectives such as “good” or “tasty.” Instead, opt for more specific and evocative words that truly capture the essence of the pizza.

10. How can I tailor my description of pizza to different audiences?

Consider the preferences and tastes of your audience when crafting your description. Use language and references that will resonate with them, whether they are a pizza connoisseur or a casual foodie.

11. What are some ways to inspire cravings when describing pizza?

To inspire cravings, describe the pizza in a way that highlights its deliciousness and appeal. Use mouth-watering details and enticing language to make the reader eager to take a bite.

12. How do I capture the cultural significance of pizza in my description?

When describing pizza, you can mention its cultural roots, such as its origins in Italy or its popularity in various parts of the world. Highlight the traditions and history behind pizza to add depth to your description.

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An Essay on My Favorite Food Pizza [PDF]

Yummy! Is not it? Today I’ll show you the example of an essay on Pizza.

Pizza is an Italian dish with a round in shape made with a base of wheat dough on which, the toppings of tomato, onion, capsicum, corn, cheese, and chicken is put with contents of spices then baked in the oven at high-temperature and lastly served with chili flakes and oregano or seasonings.

It has a soft crust after it is baked with cheese and has mouth-watering taste savoring your tongue with spongy and different toppings on it. Pizzas are the best to have for lunch or dinner. It is easily available at affordable rates in many of the restaurants and cafes too. 

The Italian dish, Pizza became my favorite when for the first time I had a margarita cheese pizza with extra cheese on it. It was a medium-sized pizza with servings for six people each or three people if they ate in pairs. The Pizza was hot and spongy to touch.

Its top layer was swollen and round shaped. I sprinkled chili flakes and oregano for great taste, and after this when I took a slice of pizza, the cheese was melting and gave yummy taste my tongue. With packed Pizza, inside it also had sachets of tomato sauce that I also tried on another slice of Pizza that I took. 

Pizza is an easy dish to make at homes too. I had seen many videos on YouTube telling different ways to make Pizza, in which they had toppings of vegetables and corn too. People who are not having oven for baking, use a pressure cooker or a pan for baking their Pizza using various seasonings.

It could be easily ordered in any size like large for a group of friends or family, medium-sized for a small group and small-sized for an individual. They are made either in fresh pan or hand-tossed, whichever way we want we can have it.

There are up to more than 15 varieties of Pizza’s made to serve. There are three variations of Pizza that are Stromboli, panzerotti, and calzone.

Dominos and Pizza hut are the two main largest selling pizza restaurants with multiple varieties for vegetarians and non-vegetarians too. They are available in pizza mania with four slices. Side beverages are also available that could be ordered with pizza-like garlic bread, cold drinks or chocolate brownie.

Portions of pasta are also available in both the restaurants. However, they both have variations in price range’s as in Dominos you could get Pizza at reasonable rates but Pizza Hut might be a little bit costly for you to have your favorite Pizza or try new ones.

In today’s time being in every city, we have both these restaurants in every city or every area. With the commencement of these restaurants, they were not having online orderings before but with the advancement of technology they had made available online orderings and delivery services at your doorstep in just 30 minutes. 

Not only these both restaurants but also various other restaurants are also opened servings different varieties of Pizza at affordable rates or sometimes high rates too.

Since Pizza is one of my favorite dishes that I love to eat so I must also keep in mind the contents and other fats present in it to prevent myself from harming my body as it could also lead to negative health effects causing digestive tract cancer or cardiovascular problems.

However, lycopene content is present in Pizza that provides a shield or protection from both these critical issues. 

Pizzas are made with mouth-savoring taste and soft crush but could cause harm to your health if consumed excessively. Eating Pizza every day could damage your internal organs’ liver or could cause you digestive problems like stomach pain too.

It could create serious health problems and easily to children it could deteriorate their health, and to women, it could cause pregnancy issues creating too many hectic problems regarding their health status.

Pizza contains a high quantity of calories, and so it could cause severe damage to your body. So, a person should consume a pizza once or twice a month, only to remain healthy. It would save him or her from a high amount of fat and salt ingredient present in it. 

Now I would Like to Hear from You

There you have it: essay on pizza.

Now here are my few questions:

How was the essay on pizza?

Did you find this helpful?

Or maybe you want to share your thoughts.

Either way, let me know by leaving a quick comment below.

I am pretty sure that now you are hungry to eat a pizza right? So what now! Just order a Pizza! AND if you liked this essay please mention in the comment section, also do not forget to share it on your favourite social handles.

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words to describe pizza-Best slice of pizza you’ve ever had.

For upon |The greatest slice of pizza I have ever had was some kind of modern and urban place in New York. If I remembered the name of it Ib would recommend it immediately. I ordered a slice of Pepperoni. Words to describe pizza now, I want you to close your eyes and imagine this. The crust is cooked to perfection and the thickness of the crust is not thin but not super thick either. Just right in the middle.

On top of that is some incredible tomato sauce. It was so flavorful I could name some of the ingredients. There was basil, olive oil, and this magnificent garlic inside the Italian goodness.

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On top of that is the cheese. It was so good and I don’t even like cheese smooch but this was different. The chef told us they get the cheese imported straight for Italy. Then the best part… The Pepperoni! this pepperoni is way thicker than normal and it was also straight from Italy. In New York if you come by a Modern Pizza Place, chances are you could have the best slice of pizza you have ever eaten.

The article was originally published  here .

The modern pizza was originally invented in Naples, Italy but the word pizza is Greek in origin, derived from the Greek word pēktos meaning solid or clotted . The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. The first major innovation that led to flat bread pizza was the use of tomato as a topping. It was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza began.

While it is difficult to say for sure who invented the pizza, it is however believed that modern pizza was first made by baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples. In fact, a popular urban legend holds that the archetypal pizza, Pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita.

Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie swathed in the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). Supposedly, this kind of pizza was then named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita.

Later, the dish has become popular in many parts of the world:

• The first pizzeria, Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba , was opened in 1830 in Naples.
• In North America, The first pizzeria was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City.
• The first Pizza Hut , the chain of pizza restaurants appeared in the United States during the 1930s.

Nowadays, many varieties of pizza exist worldwide, along with several dish variants based upon pizza.

Source: Wikipedia

Comprehension:

• Historians know who invented the pizza. a. True b. False
• The word pizza has an Italian Origin. a. True b. False
• Raffaele Esposito was the first to prepare modern pizza. a. True b. False
• The first pizzeria was opened in New York. a. True b. False

Think of your favorite…let’s go with…food. Yes, food.

Describe what it tastes like, but don’t stop there.

Cover as many senses as you can: the physical feel of it; the smell; what it looks like; if it’s crunchy, describe that sound; and taste, of course.

Think of if you’ve ever felt like you were starving to death, then you bit into your favorite food. You probably closed your eyes and savored every moment of it. Describe what you felt.

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My favorite food is pepperoni pizza. When I smell a saucy, cheesy, spicy pizza baking in the oven, I can hardly wait to get my hands under a soft, warm slice. I cannot bear not sinking my teeth into the gooey, doughy thick crust pizza, cannot stand to have the round, red little pepperonis taunting me.

I remember one time going from 11:00 until 7:00 without eating even a snack. As soon as that heavenly pizza came out of the oven, I nearly burned my fingers as I escorted the biggest slice to my plate, blanketing it in a snow of Parmesan cheese.

At the first hot, steamy bite, I grinned ear-to-ear. That one little slice of pizza was comforting to me…and my starving belly. I enjoyed every last bite, until I reached the crust, and then I started on another slice. It was the most amazing pizza I thought I had ever tasted.

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Grr…now I want pizza.

Make my mouth water!

Peace! ~Tia

For upon |Pizza truly makes the people come together.  Whether it’s spicing up a game night or making a weeknight at home that much more satisfying, pizza is always the best choice, pretty much any time you’re craving something delicious.

In appreciation of this magical food, we teamed up with DIGIORNO® Pizza to create visual odes to pizza in the form of pie charts. (Get it? Pie charts?) You can’t exactly quantify your love for pizza, but we definitely tried, using various pizza-shaped diagrams.

As you fire up your pizza in the oven, check out these charts that extol what we know and love about pizza, whether it’s the ability to turn any get-together into a party, its ability to cheer you up when you’re down, or how even the thought of it can give you a boost. Happy eating!

1. Because Nothing Else Compares: words to describe pizza

2. Because Pizza Fulfills You Both Physically And Emotionally

Sometimes, the only thing that gets us through the day is the anticipation of popping a pizza into the oven the second we get home.

3. Because The Best Things In Life Are Worth Waiting For

Sure, you can multi-task while you wait for your pizza to cook, but you can also just bask in anticipation by watching the crust start to brown and the cheese start to bubble.

4. Because A Good Partner Will Notice Your Interests

Actions speak louder than words, and nothing says, “I love you” like pizza, piping hot and straight from the oven.

5. Because Cheese Is Something We Can All Agree On

Toppings, of course, are a totally different matter.

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Illustrations by Mary Blount.

Words to Describe pizza

As you’ve probably noticed, adjectives for “ pizza ” are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for “pizza” are also take-away, acceptable late-night, tremendous deluxe, least co-operative, and incongruous innocent. There are 191 other words to describe the pizza listed above. Hopefully the above-generated list of words to describe pizza suits your needs.

If you’re getting strange results, it may be that your query isn’t quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like “tiger” or “blue eyes”. A search for words to describe “people who have blue eyes” will likely return zero results. So if you’re not getting ideal results, check that your search term, “ pizza ” isn’t confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren’t many pizza adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an ambiguous part of speech. For example, the word “blue” can be a noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is pizza ?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the “ HasProperty ” API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives that commonly describe a word. Eventually I realized that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files – mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully, it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns that are similar, but different in some significant way –

for example, gender is interesting: “woman” versus “man” and “boy” versus “girl”. On an initial quick analysis, it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features, and general attractiveness). In fact, “beautiful” is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms .

If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for “woman” – too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The “uniqueness” sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the “Sort By Usage Frequency” button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source MongoDB which was used in this project.

Adjectives for pizza

 A list of pizza adjective is in this post. Each word below found in front of the noun pizza in the same sentence.

baked, best, big, cold, crust, delicious, empty

entire, excellent, favorite, fired, first, free, frozen

good, greasy, great, homemade, hot, inch, Italian

large, leftover, little, local, more, much, mushroom

Neapolitan, new, night, old, order, out, oven

own, small, style, vegetarian, white, whole

Hope this word list had the adjective used with pizza you were looking for.

17 adjectives to describe « pizza »

• The night before the crash , his roommate said he ‘d ordered a large pizza so he ‘d have leftovers for the next night .
• When customers traipse from Meadowbank to Glendowie for their favourite pizza you know it has to be good .
• For example , it takes 12 minutes to heat a frozen pizza in the conventional oven and only four minutes to do it in the microwave .
• A former Pizza Hut restaurant turned liquor outlet in Nelson could be in for another change of use soon .
• The Hawaiian pizzas ( $ 19 ) are crisp and piled with pineapple and ham , ideal for the small Wards among us .
• The other main street , rue des Ecouffes ( medieval slang for moneylenders ) , completes the lively shopping area , with delicatessens , kosher butchers , and even kosher pizza shops .
• Linda Fiorentino , in Dogma , has lost her faith over her inability to conceive , while Arnold Schwarzenegger , in End of Days , is so distressed over the murders of his wife and daughter that he is reduced to making smoothies out of Pepto – Bismol and leftover pizza .
• Starting life in 1976 as a pizza parlor in central Whangarei , Reva ‘s has evolved into a world-class  world -class restaurant   where visiting yachties from around the Pacific tie up alongside Southern California cooking complemented by the original pizza .
• Make your own pasta , sweet and savory pizza dough , different toppings, and risottos .
• They tried more than a half – dozen restaurants and pizza parlors and found them variously full , out of food , closed for lack of water for washing up , and charging one – eighth of a month ‘s salary for a single pizza .
• The spicy pizza gives Brickster fiery breath , allowing him to melt the bars of the jail he is being held in , and make his escape .
• There ‘s nothing like a tasty pizza from P Haven before a big gig , and they provided the necessary energy the bands needed to charge really hard .
• A used pizza box works great to stretch a shirt over to paint … as long as it is clean on the outside .
• Over the weekend Australian pizza chain Domino ‘s launched what is planned to be a nationwide operation to compete for head on with Restaurant Brands ‘ Pizza Hut franchise .
• He reached for the still – warm pizza with a satisfied smirk .
• Then as now , there was infinitely more cheese – topping on the great cultural pizza than there was pepperoni , even if you lower the brow level   on the pepperoni .
• We are famous for our fantastic pizzas .

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Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.

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The pizza was as big as the wheels on my truck. It was thin crust with feta cheese, olives and fresh tomatoes- a “Greek” I think they call it. The dough was wholewheat but you couldn’t really tell, certainly the kids couldn’t. They ate it just the same and asked for more.words to describe pizza

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 Ryan poked at it with the fork. It looked like something from the nineteen seventies, too much dough, too much topping. It was less appetizing than the plate it was on. He took out his phone and sent it’s picture to all hi friends, it was about all it was good for- a few LOL’s and OMG’s. Not really worth twenty dollars but what could he do? His girlfriend worked there, refusing to pay would be a really bad move. Perhaps she’d made it herself.words to describe pizza

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The pizza was pizzeria perfect. How could it be anything else from Dad. He could make bread like no-one else and he used a pizza stone. There were even herbs in the dough. Like all his other home-baking it was mostly wholewheat, yet still so light. The sauce had chunks of tomato and the topping was three cheeses. There was nowhere in the world that sold pizza like this, and even if they did it wouldn’t be as good. words to describe pizza

There was nothing better than the pizza at Dario’s. The base was the perfect combination of light inside and crunchy on the bottom. The toppings were fresh and fragrant. It was the only place I could think of to take Jenny for our first date. Not so posh she felt intimidated and not so down-market she felt cheated. Everyone knows we live in the big house, but I can’t have her think I’m a snob or too expensive to date.words to describe pizza

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The Costco Pizza Topping You Can Find On The Food Court Menu

Denizens of the Costco food court are fanatical about the forever affordable hot dog meal deal , the unique chicken bake, and the gargantuan slices of pizza. That said, many are also fans of hacking the menu to create new and unusual items. For instance, the "Forbidden Glizzy" is a mashup of epic proportions that sees the famed quarter pound hot dog, sans bun, stuffed into the chicken bake. But that's not the only way to make use of the dog. If you can't decide whether to eat a slice of pizza or a hot dog, have the best of both worlds by adding the hot dog to the pizza as a topping. 

Understand that no hacks will be honored by the employees of Costco's food court. Rather, these must be made at your table. Simply order a hot dog and a slice of cheese pizza — or pepperoni if you want to double up on the meat — and remove the dog from its bun before slicing it into rounds and topping the pizza. It's not perfect, as the hot dog wasn't baked into the cheese, but if you act while everything is still warm, the hot dog rounds should stay in place. For a next-level hot dog pizza experience, try adding a drizzle of yellow mustard and some chopped raw white onions, which, by the way, are free and great on the pizza solo .

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Given the culture of food hacks and the popularity of Costco and its food court, it should come as little surprise that the above method of creating a hot dog-pizza hybrid at the big box store isn't the only method. For those whose hacks trend more toward stunt food, the move is to buy a hot dog and a slice of pizza and wrap the warm slice around the naked hot dog. Mustard and onions are again optional. Is it a particularly attractive foodstuff? Not by traditional standards, but then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The  Costco food court hacks  don't stop there, and the "Jochizza" is one of the more involved concoctions. This requires the purchase of a hot dog combo, a chicken bake, and a slice of pepperoni pizza. As with the "Forbidden Glizzy, the chicken bake is opened like a bun, and the hot dog is laid down the middle. Then, you carefully excise the cheese, sauce, and pepperoni from the pizza and layer it all over the hot dog. This may sound like a frontal assault of flavors and textures, and it is, but no one crafting a "Jochizza" is entering into the affair considering balance. It is decadence at its finest, and as your sodium levels spike, you may just wonder what other hacks there are to be had.

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Stanford University is laying off its current Jones Lecturers.

Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones —a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast.

Last Wednesday, a dean, a senior associate dean and a co-director of Stanford’s storied and popular creative writing program held a Zoom meeting with the program’s 23 Jones Lecturers, according to some of those lecturers, who were chosen from the ranks of those who have held the university’s prestigious Stegner Fellowship for writers.

The university leaders complimented the Jones Lecturers over Zoom. “They praised us to the moon,” Tom Kealey, a lecturer for two decades, told Inside Higher Ed . “Endlessly” praised was how Edward Porter, a lecturer of eight years, put it.

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Then, Kealey said, the leaders announced they would all be losing their jobs within the next two academic years. “The worst part is to be praised while you’re being fired,” Porter said. According to notes he took of the meeting, Nicholas Jenkins, the program’s co-director, said something to the effect of “you’re excellent, but others will be excellent in the future.”

There was an added sense of betrayal. The deans—Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean of humanities and arts—said this wasn’t their decision, according to Kealey. In Medium posts on the ordeal, he wrote that they said it came from “the senior professors of creative writing.”

“These are literally our teaching colleagues of the last five to 15 years,” Kealey wrote. “And they decided in a previous secret meeting to fire all 23 of their junior colleagues.” In another post, he wrote that “it was only the MALE professors who voted to fire us.” ( Inside Higher Ed reached out Tuesday to some of the male creative writing professors on Tuesday, but received no responses.)

In an unsigned announcement last Wednesday on the university’s website, Stanford said it is returning to the “original intent of the Jones Lectureships: one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for a limited term.” That announcement said the recommendation came from faculty members on a “Working Group of Creative Writing Academic Council faculty,” but it didn’t name them.

Satz, Safran and Jenkins said in an emailed joint statement to Inside Higher Ed that "this change will again allow Stegner Fellows the opportunity to apply to be Jones Lecturers once they have completed their fellowships. Jones Lecturers will have one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for up to four additional years."

While it’s no longer rare for non-tenure-track faculty members to be laid off by higher education institutions facing budget woes, Stanford is a wealthy institution and creative writing is, by its own admission, a popular program.

“We have a large number of fully enrolled classes, many with significant waitlists and some where the waitlists are longer than the enrollment roster,” Jenkins said in a February 2023 article on the university’s website. He also said, “We’re in a remarkable period of hiring during which we’re fortunate enough to be bringing to campus an extraordinarily talented array of significant artists and teachers.”

But the lecturers say they’re the ones teaching most of the creative writing classes for undergraduates, and that their years of experience improve teaching. Kealey said some lecturers teach five classes a year; others teach four. He wrote on Medium of the senior creative writing professors that “the 10 of them … taught 13 undergraduate classes last year (and 19 overall, less than two classes taught per professor).”

The leaders said during the Zoom meeting the decision wasn’t about money, according to Porter. “It’s maddening to have outstanding enrollment and be phased out anyway,” he said. While the university has said it wants to simply return the Jones Lectureships to the short stints they used to be, Kealey suggests the tenured professors in his department had other motives.

“I think there’s a peasants and lords issue here,” Kealey said.

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In 1946, Wallace Stegner, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angle of Repose , founded Stanford’s creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowships are named in his honor.

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E. H. Jones, who had an oil fortune, funded the fellowships and also established the connected Jones Lectureships, according to the university’s announcement from last week. It said these were meant to be “limited, fixed-year teaching appointments, allowing exceptional Stegner Fellows some time and support to prepare a manuscript for publication, hone their teaching skills and transition to a longer-term teaching career elsewhere.”

But “over time this framework of term-limited appointments was not followed,” the university said. It did not say when that change occurred. It might have had something to do with Eavan Boland.

Boland, an Irish poet, led the creative writing program for 20 years until her sudden death in 2020. “Eavan was just a fierce defender of the program,” Kealey said. He said her death “was a great loss to all of us.”

When Boland joined the program, Kealey said, it had maybe 20 or 25 classes. But Boland wanted every student who so desired to be able to take a creative writing class. Kealey said lecturers went to residence halls in early years to speak with students about the program. Over about 15 years, Kealey said, the program grew to offer about 120 classes.

Porter said Boland “developed a large cadre of about 20 to 25 lecturers.” Even though they were on one-year contracts, Porter said, they kept getting renewed. He said it’s true that Boland did move the lectureships away from their original intent—but that it was beneficial for students, teaching and the program.

“There are a lot of human skills to playing this game, and those don’t come in a year,” Porter said. “We have letters, testimonials from students about how much we’ve meant to them. We’re also very available to them—we talk to them outside of class, there’s a sense of continuing mentorship if they want it.”

Now, Porter said, “there is at least the appearance” of the university creating “artificial scarcity,” suggesting there’s no room for the new, younger Stegner Fellows writers to get a leg up by becoming Jones Lecturers “because these crusty old folks are hogging up all the real estate.” Safran, the senior associate dean, said, per Porter’s meeting notes, that “in some years few or no Stegners were able to advance.”

Kealey said, “There’s no shortage of space for new Stegner Fellows to be hired into the Jones Lectureships, but, I don’t know, the professors wanted to do a scorched earth with this, and that’s what they’ve done.”

The lecturers said they pushed for, and received, raises from the university in September 2023. “Exactly a year later we’re all fired,” so “connect the dots here,” Kealey said. “I think the lords didn’t like that—didn’t like the peasants speaking up.”

Porter talked about “balancing one set of values against the other.” He said the tenured or tenure-track “creative writing faculty doesn’t teach many classes and many of them are not involved—they don’t care about the undergraduates. It’s not their job to care; it’s their job to write books, be famous and raise money, and that’s very necessary.”

And part of the purpose of the Jones Lectureship program is to give new writers a step up. But Porter worries about the other side of the equation being lost. “It’s our job to care about the undergrads,” he said.

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The Ultimate Guide to Nizhny Novgorod (and Beyond!)

Nizhny Novgorod… The city where I spent eight months of my life and never regretted a single day of it. My dear reader, if you are reading these lines, it is likely that you are planning a trip to this wonderful city yourself. Perhaps, you do not know where to start. I too was in your shoes so I would know. Maybe, you do not know where to start because you do not know much Russian. Maybe you do know some Russian but realize that there is not much written about the city even in that language. I know, I know… Let us fix this severe injustice to one gem of a city once and for all, right now. Below, you can find two things: a categorized list of all my articles to date on Nizhny Novgorod and beyond, collected here for a much easier access to them all; and a carefully curated “best of” list for the city for those who only plan to spend a few days in this wonderful place.

No more will the wonders of Nizhny Novgorod go unnoticed by the rest of the world!

(Ok, this may be going a tad too much…)

What to do in Nizhny Novgorod?

Feeling bored? Read these articles to figure out what to do next in the city!

• Nizhny Novgorod’s Kremlin
• Keeping Up with the Nizhny Novgorodians: Online Catalogues for Events in the City
• Musical Nizhny Novgorod: Finest Spots in Town for Music Lovers
• When Walking Around Becomes a Hobby: Parks of Nizhny Novgorod
• Feeling Artsy in Nizhny Novgorod: Art Museums of Nizhny
• Museums of History in Nizhny Novgorod
• Technical Museums of Nizhny Novgorod

Where to eat in Nizhny Novgorod?

Feeling peckish? Not on my watch! Go figure out what to eat now by reading the following articles.

• American Fast Food in the Russian Federation (in 2022)
• A Short Guide to Shawarmas of Nizhny Novgorod
• Vegetarian Shawarmas of Nizhny Novgorod
• Falafels of Nizhny Novgorod
• Pizzerias of Nizhny Novgorod
• Pescetarian Nizhny: Budget Friendly Fish Sandwiches Around Town
• Shellfish Nizhny: Affordable Shrimp Options in Town
• A Guide to Business Lunches in Nizhny Novgorod: Slavic Edition
• A Guide to Business Lunches in Nizhny Novgorod: “Oriental” Edition
• A Guide to Business Lunches in Nizhny Novgorod: “Modern” Edition
• A Guide to Business Lunches in Nizhny Novgorod: “Exotic” Edition
• Random Food Spots Around Nizhny Novgorod
• Sweet Nizhny Novgorod: Bakeries and Cafes in Town
• Drinking Nizhny Novgorod: Pubs of the City

Miscellaneous Articles About Nizhny Novgorod

Feeling confused? Here is a list that will surely confuse you further with its randomness!  

• Public Transportation in Nizhny Novgorod
• Shopping in Nizhny Novgorod
• Temples of Nizhny Novgorod
• 4th of November in the Russian Federation: Unity Day
• Celebrating the New Year in The Russian Federation
• Maslenitsa: Mardi Gras of Russia?
• A Little Soviet Getaway: Bor
• The Quirky World of “Russian” Instant Noodles
• Miscellaneous Bits and Pieces about Nizhny Novgorod

Arkhangelsk – Mini Arc

Feeling adventurous? Why not fly to Arkhangelsk after reading what to do and what to eat over there?

• Arkhangelsk: A City Worthy of an Archangel?
• Malye Korely: A Sliver of Heaven in Arkhangelsk
• Eating Out in the North: Where to Feast in Arkhangelsk

Kazan – Mini Arc

Feeling reasonable? Well yeah, Arkhangelsk may not be for everyone, but there really is not any reason not to visit Kazan if you will be staying in Nizhny Novgorod for a while.

• Soviet Kazan: An Era Long Gone?
• Tatar Kazan: A Mix of Identities
• The True Highlight of Kazan: Temple of All Religions
• The Land of Meat and Potatoes: Tatar Fast Food
• Top Pizze rias of Kazan
• Most Welcome Yet Unexpected: Vietnamese Food in Kazan

Best of Nizhny Novgorod

Alright, I can almost hear you say: “oh geez man, let me just stay in Nizhny for a few months to make sure that I experience everything you wrote.” I suppose you are right, not all will study in Nizhny, nor work there, some will just pass by and so on. If you do not have months to explore the city, but only a few days, perhaps just one, what then? Where to go and what to eat? Well, without much humility, I would strongly recommend you visit the following spots first and eat at these fine establishments before anywhere else. These are the must haves of Nizhny, according to yours truly!

DO AND SEE!

• See the city’s Kremlin with your own eyes, and maybe visit the State Russian Art Museum there if you have the time.
• Go to the lower side to gawk at the Cathedral of Aleksander Nevsky and all the goodies it holds.
• Spend some time in the gorgeous Switzerland Park and watch a sunset there, or perhaps travel to the stars at Planetarium 1.
• Appreciate the unique ornaments of the State Bank on the main pedestrian street, Bol’shaya Pokrovskaya.
• Walk down Chkalov’s Stairs and then walk along the Volga until you visit the beautiful Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

EAT AND DRINK!

• Savour the finest ramen this city (and perhaps the entire Federation) has to offer at Fukuramen.
• Eat some decent pizza at either Yula or Pech, depending on which bank of the Oka you are exploring at the time.
• Enjoy the company and service of the finest people in town by grabbing a mug of beer in Freakadely.
• Go to Öö if you want to taste the best cocktails in town instead, in an almost hidden basement no less!
• Head to Gellert for the best beer in town as well as some quick and rather affordable grubs.
• Have some Cinnabon rolls at Cinnabon alongside with a hot drink of your choice to survive the Russian winter.
• Try a business lunch at Skoba, with their own unique takes on many modern dishes.

Well, there you go. Almost a year spent in an unassuming “little” Russian city, one that surprised me at every turn, and one that made me say “thank you” to my former self for choosing to come here just a few months earlier. It was an amazing stay to say the least, and I did not even explore the outlying areas of the city, so, in all honesty, this guide can be expanded sometime in the future quite easily. I cannot say for sure whether I will be back to Nizhny at any point, but if I do, I know that I will be happy to do so. It feels quite weird to be able to put months of my experience into such a short guide, but if this will help anyone out there who is willing to come and enjoy this city, then I guess it will be doing its job just right. I wish you all good luck and best of times!

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Legendary nyc artist patti smith among those fighting to save public garden she describes as creative refuge.

A public garden that’s set to be demolished has played a part in creative life of one of New York City’s greatest living artists, she tells us.

Patti Smith is one of several bold-face names campaigning to save the Elizabeth Street Gardens in Little Italy.

And the musician, author and poet tells Page Six that the spot — which is set to be destroyed to make way for affordable housing for the elderly — has been a creative refuge for her, as well as thousands of others city dwellers.

She even said that she’s worked on a new book about her life while sitting in the Downtown oasis.

“I’ve written poems there. I like to sit and think. It’s a good place just to think and contemplate,” the author of books including “Just Kids” and “M Train” told us, adding, “I’m working on a book. It’s a work in progress and when I was in the garden I was writing about my mother.”

“When we do performances there, it’s not like raucous atmosphere — it’s a very light-hearted, benevolent atmosphere were people are listening,” Smith said, “Sometimes I’ve improvised poetry with my daughter in the garden. It’s inspiring. But it’s also calming. Sometimes I might want to go to the garden not to work, but to exist — just to feel blessed by my surroundings.”

Robert De Niro and Martin Scorcese have also lent their weight to the cause. Along with Smith, the three cultural icons have penned letters to Mayor Eric Adams , asking him to step in to save the garden.

The site was first developed as a garden by Allan Reiver in the early 1990s. A developer now plans to build affordable housing on the space. Demolition is due to begin in a matter of weeks, and the garden could be closed as soon as September 10.

“I’ve lived in the city off-and-on for over half a century, and these type of areas are fast diminishing,” she said. “And they’re worth fighting for.”

Her daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, is working nearly full-time on the campaign to save the garden.

“It’s more than a garden,” Patti said, “It’s really like a work of art. It’s like an art installation merging sculpture and nature and community — all three things in one place.”

The “Gloria” singer acknowledged that affordable housing for the elderly is, of course, important, and she noted that at 77 years old, she’s naturally sensitive to the needs of older citizens.

But she said that the city is full of empty office and retail space, and that its seems likely that a beloved garden isn’t the only viable spot for the new homes.

“And it must be said that many of the people who are concerned about losing the garden are the elderly,” Patti said, “There are many elderly people who have said they’d forfeit the right to live in any new housing, if we would only save the garden.”

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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Hand up if you are the type of person who jumps eagerly into assembling a new piece of furniture or an appliance without first reading the instruction manual. There’s no judgment here; we’ve all done it. It’s just a dishwasher, you tell yourself. How hard could it be to install?

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