The Promise of Pizza

Summer Substacks: Are we there yet? Ireland’s pizza routes

Pizza is everyone’s panacea. It’s the nice slice that makes everything better.

And pizza is having a moment in Ireland right now, with some truly distinguished pizzaiolos pushing the peel, from north to south, east to west. Pizza attracts the longest queues and debates on Roman versus Neapolitan versus New Haven are amongst the most pointed culinary debates, because everyone has a pizza opinion.

And everyone has a pizza favourite. We will bet that you can recall the best pizza you ever ate, where it was, and what it was. For a simple tablet of dough drenched with a topping, pizza is uniquely memorable. Every great pizza is freighted with happiness anchors. The promise of pizza at the end of a journey is one of life’s best promises. Are we there yet?