FAT OLIVES – Flagstaff, Arizona
Several years and a couple of tons ago, my friend “Macho” Mike Moretti and I were the type of trenchermen that all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurants feared so much they established strict time limits. When a German restaurant on San Mateo offered a free dessert to any diner who could finish a gargantuan combination plate, we easily surmounted the challenge and asked for seconds. Perhaps our most impressive culinary conquest transpired when Pizza Inn offered a “order one pizza, get the next size free” deal. We ordered an extra large pizza and a large pizza then polished them off. That was the last time I ever finished at least an entire pizza (about ten acres of pie) by myself. That is, the last time until my Kim and I paid an inaugural visit to Fat Olives in Flagstaff, Arizona. No ordinary pizza will you find at Fat Olives. The pizza for which I scaled the heights of gluttony placed third in the International Pizza Expo in 2014. That event hosts the largest assembly of pizzaiolo in the world. Its prestigious pizza-making competition in North America, if not the world. Third place places Fat Olives in rarefied air. Furthermore, Fat Olives is a…
