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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:00:07 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

This article more or less rings true:

http://tinyurl.com/ku5tae4

Having grown up in the epicenter of the pizza belt, I'm usually
disappointed by the pizza I've encountered outside of it. In all the
years I've lived in the Washington, D.C., area, I've only encountered
two restaurants that make pizza that even resembles the good stuff from
New Haven. And there was one pizza joint in NE Florida that had
satisfactory pizza...and it turns out the owner and chef was from
Providence.

I feel the same about Italian food in general.

Once you have had Italian food from the New York area, nothing else
seems to compare.
Occasionally you will find a transplant who brought the skill with
them but it is rare.
I did find a good Italian restaurant on the south end of Clearwater
Beach at the end of a strip mall right before you go over the bridge
but I am not sure if they are still there.

There is a place here that has a genuine pizzaiolo, studied in Italy.
The real deal is hard to find, most pizza in the U.S. is *******ized
anyway.