Food & Wine recently published
its 10 best pizza states in America - and Connecticut
came in second.
It gave New Jersey the No. 1 spot
for 2021, citing that some of the best pizza can be found in Jersey City. It
said New Jersey is "one in an elite group remaining true to their
heritage, through long periods of time when others were too busy crashing ahead
into the future to care about theirs."
Coming in at number 2 for best
pizza was Connecticut.
It said, "No state wields
quite so much clout out of such a concentrated pool of talent, centered in New
Haven, which has been one of America's most important pizza cities for as long
as there has been pizza in America." It also pointed out the unbelievably
thin bar pies at the Colony Grill in Stamford, which has been around since the
end of the Great Depression.
New York pizza came in third. The
article said that there has always been very good pizza in the Empire State -
and most likely always will be, but "a couple of decades into the complete
remake of American food, and after years of rising rents, we find ourselves at
a crossroads."
Illinois, Michigan, California,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and Missouri rounded out the top 10 pizza
states.