I attended the previously mentioned NYC Food Film Fest's Pizza Night in the parking lot next to Grimaldi's in Brooklyn the other night. It was great to be around a bunch of other pizza fanatics directly under the Brooklyn Bridge.
While I was waiting around for the show to start, I had the pleasure of finally meeting the mastermind behind the amazing Slice pizza blog, Adam Kuban, in person. He told me some interesting stuff about his life as a full-time pizza blogger, but that's a whole other story...
After a couple short speeches from the Food Film Fest crew and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, they screened 3 short films: Pure & Simple, which is a view in to the daily life of hardcore pizzeria Una Pizza Napoletana (I've never been, but I definitely intend to check it out soon); Brooklyn Pizza which showed what Adam Kuban described as "pizza porn" -- the pizza-making process at 3 different Brooklyn pizzerias (Di Fara, Totonno's, and Grimaldi's); and finally In Pignata: Calabrian Fireside Cooking, which wasn't really about pizza at all, but followed around an aging traditional Italian farmer as she prepped food from her own harvests.
Grimaldi's sent out a couple rounds of sampling pies for the salivating crowd throughout the night. Much appreciated, but after the event I decided to wait in line to get a proper dose. Nothing has changed about Grimaldi's pie since I first had it: it's still one of the best pizzas I've ever eaten. So good.
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