Making a List, Checking it Twice...

I love food blogs. Not so much blogs about making food, but about eating food. A few years ago I blogged about the regional fish fry scene (LOVE me a good fish fry). 

I think I had 23 readers - yeah, big stuff. šŸ¤£

After that, I started my quest to find Western Pennsylvania's best Reuben. I made lots of notes on the sandwiches I tried, but all that effort somehow never became an actual blog. (But if you really want to know, for the best one it's a toss-up between Schoolhouse Tavern and Rodney's.)

Early this year I spent a month in Louisville, Kentucky, visiting family while working remotely. Chip and I have often commented that pizza in Louisville - while very good - is expensive compared to our home in the Pittsburgh suburbs. 

One of the reasons is likely the sheer number of pizza places here creates competition that you don't have in Louisville. Western PA is home to a very large number of Italian immigrants, and both family Italian restaurants and pizza places proliferate. For instance Delmont, the small town where I live, has 2,569 residents and five pizza places (and there were six up until two years ago). Three of the five are independent, and two are chains. That may be normal in some parts of the world, but not in most places I've lived.

A few months ago I started thinking: wouldn't it be fun to try all of the independent pizza places in our county that we've never tried? How many are there? Would it even be possible to try them all in a year?



So this blog was born. Well, it started gestating. Today the blog is born into the world.

I'm in the process of making a list of the pizza joints we'll try (Chip is a somewhat willing participant in this adventure). My goal is to come up with 50 that we've never tried or haven't tried in the last ten years (we've eaten A LOT of pizza in 26 years). And then sometime in the next couple of weeks, the fun will begin.

I'm excited to share the journey with you, my pizza-loving readers. And if you are nearby, feel free to invite yourself on a pizza excursion!


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