Our first reaction when we saw that Alan Richman anointed three local restaurants as serving one of America's 25 best pizzas in GQ -- Pizzeria Delfina, Gialina Pizzeria, and A16 -- was pride in our hometown: Cool! That's 12 percent of the best pies around!
Richman boasts of visiting 10 different cities -- and going deep into their outlying areas -- ultimately racking up, he said, 20,000 miles. (Hometown New York gets 5 out of 25. Big surprise.)
Like his earlier pieces on the best burg
Giulia Melucci's I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (Grand Central Publishing, $23.99) is a real beach read, the foodie equivalent of chick lit. The author exhaustively details various affairs with men who are -- all together now! -- afraid of commitment, down to the last post-coital bowls of spaghetti and subsequent passive-aggressive emails. Brand names (clothes, rock groups, restaurants) are thick on the ground in this first work by a veteran of New York's PR and publishing worlds. Melucci see
Hope the props department gives him classier Crocs.Mario Batali fans may be intrigued to know that their favorite Molto chef will play a restaurant owner in a soon to be released horror film called Bitter Feast. The low budge film is about the kidnapping of what the trailer blurb describes as a "powerful and notoriously snarky food critic," J.T. Franks, played by Humpday's Josh Leonard. In what sounds like an interesting twist, Batali plays the owner of a restaurant the food critic gives
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