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Article: PIZZA: A LONG WAY FROM NAPLES.(AT HOME)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2000
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Once, taking the back roads to my central Ohio hometown, we came to a hamlet that undoubtedly owed its existence to the grain elevator rising from the flat agrarian terrain. The hamlet consisted of a few houses and a four-way stop sign marking the business district.
On the four corners were a gas station, a church, a video rental shop and a pizza parlor.
The residents apparently were content to trek 20 miles to a city for groceries, banking and medical necessities. Day-to-day life, however, could not be maintained without pizza.
It is hard to believe that pizza became nationally pervasive only after World War II. Some believe that returning ...