INTERESTING STORY ABOUT TREFE

Be sure to read this to the end…….. This is a great story about a trefe food contest. Why do we run it here? First of all, go know that there is a big pizza competition. Second, go know that there is such a thing as the Best Pie in America Crown. Nu? Go read……… (Our comments are at the end)

NEW YORK (FORTUNE Small Business) — For people who love pizza, Emporium, Pa., has in the last few months become a destination.

The small town, a three-hour drive from Pittsburgh, is home toPizza Palace Plus, and to owner David Smith’s award-winning Cajun chicken pizza. Smith piles mozzarella and provolone atop a thin coat of spicy sauce, followed by diced marinated chicken breast, bacon, celery, parmesan and Romano cheeses, blue cheese dressing, and a dusting of oregano – a recipe that won Smith a first-place victory at the American Pizza Championship last September, and has been luring pizza aficionados to Emporium ever since.

It also earned him a spot on the U.S. Pizza Team and a chance to compete in the America’s Plate Competition, an international culinary contest that took place Monday at the New York Pizza Show. Award-winning pizzaiolos from Italy, Finland, China and Australia joined Smith in New York for a shot at the silver trophy plate. There, in front of a crowd of salivating spectators, the chefs constructed their signature pizzas. Ingredients included the familiar and the exotic: mozzarella, salami, mushrooms, sweet potatoes, seafood – even reindeer meat.

The America’s Plate Competition is just one of many pizza competitions held all over the world. For small business owners like Smith, these events are publicity gold mines: When Smith took home his first big prize last September, he saw an instant spike in sales.

“After we won that – the best pizza in the U.S. – people drove from out of town, as far as six hours away, just to taste our pizza,” he says. “They said it was the best pizza they’d ever had.”
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You know what is really sad? Had it been a kosher pizza competition, NO ONE would have won!