Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:00:32 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Popik on pizza



That was a nice history. It may be of interest to know that in these parts,

New Havenites learn at their grandparents' knee that American-style pizza was

(re)invented by Frank Pepe, who adapted the appetizer-type pizze of his native

Naples to the American palate here on Wooster Street, New Haven. Since the

local variant here is traditionally dubbed "apizza" (pronounced [aBI:TS]), a

search may not have turned up prior cites, a New Haven-born linguist friend

points out. On the other hand, the descriptions in Barry Popik's history don't

sound THAT different from the New Haven-style pizza, and his earlier cites

certainly predate the opening of Pepe's Apizza. Can anyone disconfirm my

assumption that 'apizza' (ah-BEETS) is restricted to the New Haven area?



Larry