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Slice Pizza Blog From Serious Eats Review

OK…here is the long awaited review of Slice (in reference to pizza slices) from Serious Eats. The main reason for the procrastination is because this website has been around for a long time and has much depth to be reviewed.

I will start my review of Slice from its pizza history. To do that I would like to talk about Serious Eats. Serious Eats is the master website of Slice and was founded circa 2003 by famous food critic, Ed Levine. Levine has been a food critic since about 1992 and is famous for his pizza book: Pizza: A Slice From Heaven. This book was derived from Levine’s research from scouring the globe eating pizza. Supposedly he ate 1000 pizzas in a year (3 a day).

Ed Levine loved journalism but wanted to start his own company and break away from the rules that giant companies like The New York Times enforce on their editors. Thus, Serious Eats was born. Ed Levine started adding his articles from the beginning and building loyalty amongst his readers.

Serious Eats, one of the major food blogs on the internet, has several major subwebsites, which include: Slice, A Hamburger Today, Photograzing, and Serious Eats: New York. Each of these subwebsites focus on its own niche. Slice, the topic of this review, obviously focuses on pizza. A Hamburger today focuses on hamburgers. Photograzing is about various photographs of different kinds of foods. Serious Eats: New York appears to have anything to do with food in New York.

Ed Levine used to write often for Slice and occasionally pops in there. However, these days he seems to be focused on building Serious Eats: New York as he posts frequently to there. The main contributor to Slice is Adam Kuban, the founder and editor in chief.

A little about Kuban. Adam Kuban arrived in New York City in 2000. As he claims, he ate pizza almost every day for the first six months of his NYC experience (a feat similar to Levine). His love of pizza began in his hometown of Olathe, Kansas where he grew up testing pizza recipes with his family. Kuban’s pizza enthusiasm has led Slice, formed in 2003, to the popularity that it enjoys today.

Speaking of popularity, Slice has a page called “Press and Props” which archives all of their various mentionings by many different media outlets. Some of these outlets include The New York Times and The New York Post.

What features does Slice offer? Slice offers many different features that may at first be a bit overwhelming but that is only because there is so much depth and history to the site. Slice has various pizza maps of the many pizza places that have been reviewed. Slice also has pizza recipes, pizza videos, and pizza reviews. If you would like to search Slice, they have an easy drop down menu to browse pizza by location or you can browse their archives by date or category. This is very important for a website that has been around posting almost daily for about 6 years.

The main objective of Slice is to supply pizza information to its readers. This info comes from reviews and various sources all over the internet. Particularly they are fond of having a links page with various pizza highlights.

Ok... the fun stuff... I like my friends over at Serious Eats, particularly Slice. I think that the information that they provide is very helpful for readers searching for food information. Slice focuses on the most popular food in the world, pizza. The style of information that Slice produces is very unique. Kuban finds a way to merge all pizza information, whether relevant or not, to the overall theme of his site. They are indeed similar to a New York Times of Pizza (if such a thing existed).

My review is very positive of Slice, as their information is very useful to the pizza community. I wish their weblog the best of luck and look forward to working with them to improve and unify the pizza world.

This is Blog Pizza signing off!