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3 basic ingredients, a million possibilities: How small pizzerias succeed with uniqueness in an age of chain restaurants

  • Written by Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Cultural Digital Collections Manager, University of Florida
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At its heart, pizza is deceptively simple. Made from just a few humble ingredients – baked dough, tangy sauce, melted cheese and maybe a few toppings – it might seem like a perfect candidate for the kind of mass-produced standardization that defines many global...

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