TripAdvisor recently picked America’s best pizza restaurants and cities. Chicago was named the number one city for pizza, although I’m not a fan of the deep dish version of those delicious pies. By far the best pizza that I’ve ever had was in New Haven, Connecticut, during my three years at Yale Divinity School. So I was happy to see that TripAdvisor listed New Haven as the number three city for pizza and New Haven’s Frank Pepe Pizzaria Napoletana, which opened in 1925, as the ninth best pizza restaurant in the nation. Here’s some old footage of Frank Pepe at work:
Pizza is a great theme for haiku, so let’s write about that. All you need is one verse with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Here’s my tip of the hat to the “pizza wars” of New Haven:
Pepe’s was best. But
Sally’s Apizza, divine
too. Boola, Boola.
Tumbleweed Almanac 
oh homemade pizza
fun to make and eat, but a
clean-up disaster
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made pizza tonight!
kneading, rising, chopping, wow!
Yummy family meal.
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Pink’s on the counter
Hot and fragrant, as we leave.
Jealous of sitter.
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Pizza L’vino:
Chicago deep dish and wine
Delivered. Pampered.
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Thin flat bread and cheese
A quick meal in ancient times.
Did they deliver?
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Shakey’s made a deal with the bank
The bank doesn’t sell pizza and Shakey’s
doesn’t take checks-just my cash
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Someone from my church here in Houston wrote:
Pink’s is close to home.
Bombay Pizza, exotic.
Bollo Woodfired … Yum!
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A friend from Wake Forest created this haiku:
Campus Pizza Hut
We can do better than that
Sampler’s has pizza
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Here’s one from a choir member at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church:
Pizza always good
Eat it forever I should
Kale pepperoni
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