About the Pizza Professors
The Pizza Professors, Perry and Ron, review local
pizzerias throughout the year. As a matter of cool-inary science, our rating
procedure is to invite an ad
hoc group of astute guest reviewers from the Lehigh community, including one
or more undergrads and one or more graduate students; to conduct our site
visit unannounced; to order one large cheese and one large half mushroom,
half sausage; to perform a set of patented quality-control protocols, such
as the unpatented Drip and Droop tests; to engage in friendly banter to the
point of satiation; and to average the independent ratings on our
well-rounded 8-slice scale.
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We have sampled many pies in the Northeast and
throughout the USA. Perry is a connoisseur of thin crust,
coal-fired pizza. If you have tasted John's or Patsy's in New
York, these pizzas rate an 8 out of 8 slices. Perfection
because even the crust has flavor.
Ron prefers a slightly softer but not chewy crust that doesn't
crack when you fold a slice in half lengthwise. The crust should stay crispy
throughout the meal.
Finally, a word about selection. We do not do franchises, or chains; our focus is the down-home, ma & pa pizza establishment. Similarly, we do not review pizza places that are not enthusiastically recommended by other members of the Lehigh community. Thus, our sample is skewed toward the upper end; the silent baseline, represented by the chains and unrecommended sites, is, in effect, the segment of the scale below 4.0. If you have comments or suggestions for our continuing search for the Nirvana of Pizza Palaces in the Lehigh Valley and, eventually, in the Outer World, send us your FEEDback. Photo above courtesy of Lehigh Week.
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The basics should be fresh -- no
canned mushrooms, tasteless gooey cheese, or overcooked
tomato sauce. Toppings should be generous and
enhance the taste of the pizza. Greasy slices are
unacceptable.