New Haven Apizza (sic)

So, according to Heather, New Haven is the first place in North America that ever served pizza. Re-stated: New Haven is the birthplace of pizza as we know it in North America. Or at least this is what Heather was told.

That is to say---according to my gracious hostess---that New Haven people are snobby about their pizza. And there are like tons of places...and since I was in New Haven, I had to try it. It was obligatory, mandatory, a crime if I didn't try it. (Not a crime if I didn't see the Jonathan Edwards statue...but a crime if I didn't try the pizza).

So, we made several attempts to try the pizza. Apparently, it's disputed which place is the best, and which place is the first...so Heather thought it would be a good idea for me to sample as many as possible, so we headed for the Great Pizza Festival, which was today on the town square. (Tangent about the town square: apparently it was built with millenial intentions; the dimensions relate in part to when Christ will return, or something like that?) The town square pizza was your standard New York pizza stuff (which is pretty good---and not any of the stuff you get in Vancouver that is labeled New York Pizza), but apparently not "the" pizza....so we ended up walking in the hot humidity to Modern Apizza. The picture you see here is our pizza from Modern Apizza.

And that's another different thing about New Haven pizza: most pizza places here spell pizza "apizza." Heather does not know why and no one has been able to clarify that for her. Whatever---the apizza was pretty good.