[troutman]

My Arizona friends insist the best pizza in the USA is in Phoenix:

http://www.pizzeriabianco.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzeria_Bianco

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/fun-how...ria-in-america

No one thinks to call Phoenix the pizza capital of America, much less the world. In fact, it would be fair to say that before transplanted New Yorker Chris Bianco opened Pizzeria Bianco in 1994, Phoenix was not even considered the crust capital of Arizona. Now food lovers from around the globe make the pilgrimage and wait three hours for food so good even my Neapolitan friends grudgingly acknowledge that the best pizza in the world is being made in Phoenix.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...ianco0621.html

"Pizza is this dangerous thing," says Bianco, 43, whose voice drips with the Bronx. "It puts people in this nostalgic mode. Maybe it was the first food you ate outside of the home, and because of that, it's like, your independence. People form incredibly strong opinions about it, and then they go to Italy, and they know everything."