Tag: Archive
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The Most Recent Entry, Sudbury, April 2025
The newest pizza in this whole 15-year archive — April 2025, Sudbury, Massachusetts, photographed close-up on a wire rack in a style that would look right at home next to any of this blog’s more recent wing posts. Full circle: the same photography habits that built the wing archive apparently started with pizza, over a…
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The Charred Grill Pizza, Sudbury Backyard
September 2023, back in Sudbury, and this one has serious grill-marks-and-char energy — a heavily blistered crust on a wood board with grass in the background, looking every bit like it came off a hot grill or outdoor pizza oven rather than a conventional indoor one. By 2023 this household had clearly graduated from wire-rack-on-the-counter…
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Backyard Pizza, Boxborough Edition
June 2022, Boxborough, Massachusetts, and this pizza made it all the way outside — photographed on a wood peel with grass visible in the background. Olives and assorted toppings on a crust that looks like it got real oven (or maybe outdoor pizza oven) heat. Boxborough is a new town for this archive too, which…
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Wayland Pizza, a One-Off Location
May 2021, and this one’s tagged to Wayland, Massachusetts — a town that doesn’t show up anywhere else in this archive, wings or pizza. Pepperoni and banana peppers on a well-browned crust, photographed on a wire rack. Someone’s kitchen, someone’s oven, just not the usual one. I’ll guess this was made at a friend or…
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Sudbury Era Begins: White Pizza, Overhead Shot
May 2020 — new house, new location tag (Sudbury, Massachusetts, which shows up all over this blog’s wing archive too), and a return to the white-pizza-with-ricotta formula, this time shot from directly overhead on a wood table. The pandemic spring when everyone’s home cooking hobbies got a serious upgrade shows up here too, apparently. I’ll…
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Two Pizzas, Bright Light, No Date to Be Honest About
This one has no timestamp in its file data at all, so in the interest of honesty: I don’t know exactly when this was taken. What’s clear is the content — two round pizzas side by side on a wood table, one white with a green garnish, one red-sauced, photographed in genuinely good natural light…
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The Retrospective Collage
Not a single pizza night but a multi-panel collage — five different pizzas from five different moments, assembled together at some point rather than shot in one sitting. No date survives on this one, but it reads like a “best of” compilation someone put together looking back through the archive. Fitting, honestly, that this collection…
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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…