PrintA Whole Pizza Bianca Is the Best Dinner Party Present For Your Host
Trying to figure out what to bring to a dinner party can be difficult. Usually, what happens in our circle of friends is people ask me what I want to bring. I'm pretty good on dessert, more than adequate on cheese, and truly terrible on wine or spirits. So I have found the surefire winner to bring to any dinner party is a whole pizza bianca from either Sullivan Street Bakery or Grandaisy.
What is pizza bianca? Here's how Sullivan Street Bakery founder Jim Lahey describes it:
A 6-ft. long light, airy, hand-formed flatbread; porous and bubbly with silky crumb. Accented with extra virgin extra virgin olive oil, coarse sea salt, and rosemary.
Yum! Just take a look at this beauty in its unfurled state.
Not only does it generate wows from any and all dinner party hosts because of the way it looks and tastes, it also functions as an edible centerpiece. How cool is that?
And the best thing about a whole pizza bianca is how extravagant it looks and how little it costs. Nine bucks for the whole thing, which feeds a whole mess of people. So if you're headed to a friend's house for dinner and they ask you what you want to bring, now you know what to tell them.
Sullivan Street Bakery
533 West 47th Street, New York NY 10036 (b/n 11th Avenue and 10th Avenue; map)
212-582-1237
sullivanstreetbakery.com
Grandaisy
73 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012 (b/n Broome Street and Spring Street; map)
212-334-9435
176 West 72nd Street, New York NY 10023 (near Amsterdam Avenue; map)
212-721-9000
grandaisybakery.com
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7 Comments:
What about making it yourself? Any good recipes out there?
rockchick at 11:09AM on 10/03/08
I think the pizza bianca at Sullivan St. Bakery may be my favorite bread product of all time... and idea of buying a whole one is freakin' genius!!!
Zach Brooks at 5:31PM on 10/03/08
It has no cheese, it has no tomato sauce, therefor it is not pizza. This is jazzed up bread
gaffer at 12:56AM on 10/04/08
Hmm. While I don't necessarily agree with gaffer, I will say Sullivan is the only place I know of that calls herb flatbread like this "Pizza Bianca"
Prairie at 11:37PM on 10/05/08
Okay, well im wrong.
Prairie at 11:38PM on 10/05/08
@rockchick: Cook's Illustrated has a recipe for pizza bianca in their September issue. Very tasty, not too difficult to make.
MikeK at 6:37PM on 10/08/08
It's a little late I know but haven't you guys been to Rome?
This is the classic pizza of Rome, try Il Forno on the Campo di
Fiori where they cut off a piece and wrap it up fresh from the oven
for 1.50 euros.
rab28 at 10:16AM on 11/18/08