{"id":495,"date":"2022-06-21T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redsauceamerica.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2022-06-21T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:49:58","slug":"what-do-pants-have-to-do-with-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redsauceamerica.com\/blog\/what-do-pants-have-to-do-with-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Pants Have to Do With Pizza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"https:\/\/www.redsauceamerica.com\/blog\/blogimages\/2022\/calzone.png\" class=\"img-fluid rounded\" alt=\"Pants and pizza come together to make calzone\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering what a pair of pants and a pizza has to do with calzone. <\/p>\n<p>Calzones, or Calzoni (plural in Italian), are a form of folded pizza. While pizza first started to become popular  in the 19th century Naples, the round, flat bread that we think of today as Neapolitan pizza wasn&#8217;t the only form. Not only were some pizza fried (pizza fritte), but some pizza was stuffed.  <\/p>\n<p>Calzoni were originally made from two long sheets of dough layered together over the stuffing. These stuffed tubes were said to look like the legs of a pair of trousers. You might see where this is going: Calzoni also means trousers or pants in Italian, and so the term was applied to the delicious filled bread. <\/p>\n<p>Today, a more common shape is crescent or half circle formed from taking a round piece of dough and folding over itself. With this folded circle of dough the connection to pizza is more evident. Calzones are literally folded pizza. <\/p>\n<p>Calzones became a popular Italian American dish in the 20th century. They were introduced to a wider audience through Italian festivals like New York&#8217;s feast of San Gennaro. As early as the 1920s, calzones were sold from stands along the festival route.<\/p>\n<p>As pizzerias became a popular &#8220;fast food,&#8221; calzone were added to the menu of local pizza parlors. <\/p>\n<p>The most common fillings include cheese and ham or other cured pork. But calzones are versatile and can take on the same fillings as would top a pizza. Particularly wet ingredients can cause a challenge for calzone, and this is why sauce is rarely added to the filling. Instead, sweet marinara is usually served alongside a calzone, or sauce is spooned over the baked dish. <\/p>\n<p>While Calzone are a form of stuffed pizza, they shouldn&#8217;t be confused with a similar stuffed food, the Stromboli. A stromboli is more like a sandwich, with dough rolled around fillings before being baked. Calzones do not have layers of dough in the middle, as can happen with a rolled bread like stromboli. <\/p>\n<p>The stromboli is an American original, invented in Philadelphia around 1950 by Nazzareno &#8220;Nat&#8221; Romano. The rolled up dough usually is longer rather than rounder, and usually is packed with good melting cheese like mozzarella and meats. <\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia might be known for cheesesteaks, but really the stromboli are what you should be eating. Eater has a <a href=\"https:\/\/philly.eater.com\/maps\/phillys-best-stromboli-and-other-things-that-are-not-calzones-mapped\">list of some of the best<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stromboli spread outward from Philadelphia across in the mid-Atlantic. In 1977, Stuff Yer Face opened in New Brunswick, New Jersey serving up a variety of &#8220;boli,&#8221; the restaurant&#8217;s shorthand for stromboli, significant only because celebrity chef Mario Batali got his start cooking in the kitchen there.  <\/p>\n<p>Another name for this kind of stromboli is Pepperoni Bread, with the fillings being pepperoni slices and provolone cheese generally available along the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1920s, West Virginia coal miners ate a similar bread known as a Pepperoni Roll. These are more bread-like, stuffed with pepperoni and cheese like mozzarella or pepper jack. They were officially invented by Giuseppe \u201cJoseph\u201d Argiro in 1927 and were often baked by miner&#8217;s wives. It has since become the official state bread of West Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>Another type of &#8220;stromboli&#8221; made of meats on French Bread was invented on the west coast a few years after the Stromboli were invented in Philadelphia. Mike Aquino invented the sandwich for Mike&#8217;s Burger Royal and started serving it in 1954. The shop has recently closed.<\/p>\n<p>But back to Calzone. The best calzone will be made with straight up pizza dough so that the outside is crispy and interior slightly chewy, like a New York slice. Calzone can be deep fried, but a skilled baker (and especially hot oven) will create a similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>Calzone are often featured at street fairs or at boardwalk stands along the Jersey shore, but as Neapolitan-style pizza has grown in popularity, a new wave of high-end, customized calzone have cropped up on menus. GrubStreet put together a list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/bestofnewyork\/best-calzones-in-nyc.html\">best calzone in New York City<\/a> (back in 2017).<\/p>\n<p>For me the best Calzone still probably comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helenspizza.com\/\">Helen&#8217;s Pizza in Jersey City<\/a>. This is truly a highlight of the genre filled with mozzarella and ricotta cheese and stuffed with whatever meat you prefer. I like it filled with pieces of fried chicken cutlet, but bacon or ham is good too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"https:\/\/www.redsauceamerica.com\/blog\/blogimages\/2022\/calzone.png\" class=\"img-fluid rounded\" alt=\"Pants and pizza come together to make calzone\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering what a pair of pants and a pizza has to do with calzone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104,105,108,53,107,106,109],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-lesson","tag-calzone","tag-pants","tag-pepperoni-roll","tag-pizza","tag-prepperoni-bread","tag-stromboli","tag-west-virignia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Do Pants Have to Do With Pizza? 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