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Posted on 02/16/2025 2:11:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
Patsy Grimaldi, who was credited with launching NYC’s coal-fire, brick-oven pizza craze in the 1990s from his Brooklyn pie shop, died of natural causes Thursday night, according to close friends. He was 93. “He was a visionary who maintained a life-long passion — maybe obsession — for making and sharing great pizza,” his longtime friend and business partner Matt Grogan told The Post.
“He will go down in history for his generosity and for simultaneously launching a renaissance of artisan pizza-making in New York City, and for pioneering a path to making Brooklyn cool.” Grimaldi was raised in Bronx, the son of Italian immigrants Frederico Grimaldi and Maria Juliana Lancieri Grimaldi.
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Is that Original Famous Ray’s?
If that type of oven is that good for pizza, what would it do for other food? Maybe everything should be cooked in a coal-fire, brick-oven.
-PJ
There is a small local chain around JAX that does masonry oven high temp pizza, not sure of the fuel source, probably wood. Doesn’t really matter IMNSHO, what matters is masonry oven and high temperature.
They also oven roast chicken wings, and they’re GREAT! Besides their excellent pizza.
https://www.vpizza.com/menu/wings/
And wood confirmed.
Or the other Ray’s?
Hochul said all Pizza ovens must now be electric...How stupid is that??
He probably died of a broken heart
Was he cremated?
Don’t think so. His estate could afford a lavish funeral since, in his life, he made a lot of dough
No matter how you slice it, he deserved his piece of the pie.
I had a porterhouse cooked in a pizza oven and it was the best steak I have ever had - easily a 1000* or above. Ruth’s Chris also cooks in a 1800* oven.
Rest in peace, and thanks for the pizza.
You don’t see Patsy very often as a man’s name. But Lee Harvey Oswald, after he was arrested, said he was a patsy.
Hochul said all Pizza ovens must now be electric...How stupid is that??
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Say what you want about Ned Lamont. He was asked if Connecticut was going to ban coal-fired pizza like New York. His rely was, “over my dead body!”
Now he is one with everything.
“Is that Original Famous Ray’s?”
It was Famous Original Ray’s. Or was it Famous Ray’s? Or was it Original Ray’s?
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