2/14/19 – Charles Passy, “Historian Challenges Lombardi’s Pizza Primacy,” Wall Street Journal

Peter Regas, a Chicago researcher with a pizza focus, is attempting to rewrite New York City, if not global, pizza history. He says his findings show that Lombardi’s, a dining fixture in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood that calls itself America’s first pizzeria, can’t rightfully claim that honor.

Charles Passy, “Historian Challenges Lombardi’s Pizza Primacy,” Wall Street Journal

2/12/19 – Chris Crowley, “Everything You Know About Pizza Is Wrong… Maybe,” Grub Street

It’s no overstatement to say that the news is the most controversial thing to happen to pizza since the invention of the Hawaiian pie: “It changes everything we know about New York City pizza history,” says Adam Kuban, a pizza scholar and maker who started the hugely popular blog Slice, of the startling revelations.

Chris Crowley, “Everything You Know About Pizza Is Wrong… Maybe”, Grub Street

2/11/19 – Lily Rose, “New York’s pizza history was just blown wide open by Chicago researcher,” The Daily Meal

Everything you thought you knew about the origins of pizza in America might be wrong. While it’s long been a part of pizza lore that Gennaro Lombardi established Lombardi’s — the oldest known pizzeria in the United States — in New York City in 1905, new research may prove that pizza has been in New York even longer than that and that Gennaro may not have been the first baker to sell pies out of Lombardi’s now-famous storefront.

Lily Rose, “New York’s pizza history was just blown wide open by Chicago researcher,” 2/11/19, The Daily Meal

2/8/19 – Jason Daley, “The Father of American Pizza Is Not Who We Thought He Was,” Smithsonian

For the pizza world, these revelations are bigger news than that viral video of a rat dragging a pizza through the New York City subway. As Pete Wells, New York Times restaurant critic, put it on Twitter: “This is as if some other dude we’ve never heard of wrote both the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers and then handed them over to Adams Franklin Jefferson Madison Hamilton etc.”

Jason Daley, “The Father of American Pizza Is Not Who We Thought He Was,” 2/8/19, Smithsonian

2/8/19 – Paula Mejia, “Everyone Says Gennaro Lombardi Brought Pizza to NYC. What This Blog Presupposes… Maybe He Didn’t?” Gothamist

Earlier this week, the U.S. Pizza Museum at the Roosevelt Collection published an intriguing missive suggesting not only that it’s likely that someone else established Lombardi’s before 1905, but also that there’s a sort of lost generation of pizza makers that came before then. In fact, Lombardi’s, originally located at 53 Spring Street (or 53 1/2, depending on the source) may not have even been the first pizzeria in the U.S.

Paula Mejia, “Everyone Says Gennaro Lombardi Brought Pizza to NYC. What This Blog Presupposes … Maybe He Didn’t?” 2/8/19, Gothamist

2/6/19 – Mike Pomranz, “New York’s Pizza History May Need a Major Rewrite, According to an Upcoming Book,” Food & Wine

…a forthcoming book from author Peter Regas is already purporting to rock the world of marinara and mozzarella to its core by lending some intense historical fact checking to New York City’s iconic pizza scene.

Mike Pomranz, “New York’s Pizza History May Need a Major Rewrite, According to an Upcoming Book,” 2/6/19, Food & Wine

2/6/19 – Jason Kottke, “The Forgotten Father of Pizza in the USA,” Kottke.org

A recent series of discoveries have upended the widely accepted story of the history of pizza in America and have the NYC food world in a tizzy.

Jason Kottke, “The Forgotten Father of Pizza in the USA,” Kottke.org

2/5/19 – Kendall Bruns, “Lost Forefathers of Pizza in America Discovered,” U.S. Pizza Museum