JC’s New York Pizza Department – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Gil’s immutable law of thermodynamics posits that the enjoyment of even the best pizza is correlative with the length of time which has expired since it was removed from the oven. Pizza tastes best right out of the oven when it is steaming hot and the aromas waft upwards to provide an almost sensual olfactory massage. That flavor and olfactory appreciation diminishes as the pizza grows colder and your belly fuller. This law is absolutely immutable, but it also has an equally immutable corollary: the flavor of a great pizza actually improves after it’s been refrigerated overnight. It helps, of course, if you wake up ravenously hungry and that the pizza was fabulous to begin with. I developed this theory…