Pepperonied

[…] Sardinian pasta (malloreddus), a highly pepperonied spaghetti with mussels, game birds of all sorts and strong Sardinian wine.

If you crave Italian food under the stars, the Pizza Gallery Restaurant, 2059 Madison, has an outdoor annex where you can consume pepperonied pizza pies to your heart’s content.

Actually, the four lads didn’t “put away” their pizza — they stuffed, slammed, rammed, pushed and prodded those pieces of pepperonied cheese and pasta down their throats in an effort to win the Pizza Delight/CFGO Pizza Eating contest at the company’s Britannia branch Sunday.

Today, everyone loves the slice: thick or thin, red or white, plain or pepperonied, handmade or door-delivered.

Ricota’s standard cup-and-char is one of the less pepperonied pizzas you’ll find, just six little concaves, but each one glistening and upturned with that perfectly executed fraction of an inch of crispy black rim.