Category: Pizza
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The Plain One That Almost Didn’t Survive the Archive
A round, lightly-topped pizza with a browned edge, preserved only as a small, low-resolution thumbnail — April 2018’s entry didn’t make it through the years in full quality, but the shape of the story is still there: another pizza, another Thursday, another photo taken mostly out of habit by that point. By April 2018 this…
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The Well-Done, No-Regrets Rectangle
A large, oblong pizza with a seriously charred crust — this one pushed further into “well-done” territory than almost anything else in the archive. Late March 2018, and someone clearly wasn’t afraid of a dark crust that week. Some people call that burnt. This household apparently calls it flavor. I’ll invent that the oven ran…
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The Skillet Pizza Nobody Photographed Well
A round pizza in a metal pan or skillet, photographed in low light with what survives in the archive as a fairly low-resolution shot — March 2018, and this one clearly wasn’t the priority documentation-wise, but it still earned a photo, so here it is. I’ll invent that this was a cast-iron-skillet pizza experiment, deep-dish…
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Basil, Tomato, and a Margherita Moment
Fresh basil leaves scattered across a red-sauce pizza, photographed just eleven days after the white pizza above — January 2018 was apparently a two-pizza-in-two-weeks kind of month. This one leans margherita, and the basil placement looks almost deliberate, which for this archive counts as high styling effort. Invented detail: I’ll guess the basil came from…
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White Pizza on Dark Parchment
Ricotta dollops scattered across a round white pizza, photographed on dark parchment paper in January 2018 — a full seven years after the archive’s first pizza photo, and the white-pizza-with-ricotta formula is clearly still in the regular rotation. Some combinations just work and stay in the lineup. Recipe inspiration for anyone inspired to start their…
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The Dark, Moody, Cheese-Forward One
A small, cheese-heavy round pizza photographed in low light — five shots from this session, most of them too dark to make out much topping detail beyond “there is a lot of melted cheese happening here.” January 2016, deep winter, the kind of month where you cook indoors and don’t worry too much about photography…
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The Rustic One That Tried Something New
An irregularly-shaped, chunky-topped pizza on a wooden peel — this one breaks from the round-pizza-on-a-rack formula that dominates the rest of the archive. The shape alone suggests some kind of free-form, no-pan, straight-onto-the-stone technique being attempted for the first time. I’ll invent that this was an early attempt at a more “artisan” style, stone-baked and…
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Belmont Pizza Night, Take Two (Same Month, Practically)
Less than a month after the previous Belmont pizza, another one shows up — sparse toppings this time, photographed on a plate on the same granite counter. Two pizza nights within four weeks in the same house isn’t a coincidence, it’s a pattern. Invented detail: I’ll guess July got hot enough that turning on the…
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Belmont Pizza Night, Take One
This is the first pizza in the archive with an actual GPS tag — Belmont, Massachusetts, June 2015 — because by then the camera in someone’s pocket had finally caught up to the DSLR on the counter. A round, well-charred pizza with visible pepper pieces, photographed on the granite counter that shows up again and…
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Granite Counter, Pepperoni, April 2015
A solid, round, evenly-browned pepperoni pizza cooling on a wire rack on the granite counter — no frills, no styling, just a pizza that turned out exactly the way a pizza is supposed to turn out. Sometimes the archive doesn’t need a story, just a good result. Invented detail, because that’s the rule: I’ll say…