Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:56:31 -0400

From: "Pearsons, Enid" epearsons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RANDOMHOUSE.COM

Subject: Re: Popik on pizza



And Bridgeport, which isn't all that far from New Haven. ah-BEETS was what I

heard as a child in the late 1940s and early 1950s.



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Date: 09/12/96 04:00 PM

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