Hey, everyone, Dan here with another sporkful reheat for you. And this one is in memory of the one and only

Patsy Grimaldi, a New York pizza legend. He died at the age of 93 in February. Patsy and his wife,

Carol, who passed away in 2014, they worked together for years. I was lucky enough to get to sit down and

talk with both of them about their approach to pizza making, as well as their history together. That's why I love this

episode, and I'm so excited to share it with you. I also had the chance to hang out with Patsy for

this cooking channel web series I did years ago called You're Eating It Wrong, and I showed

Patsy my inside-out pizza fold and the crust removal and all my silly techniques and he shot every single

one of them down exactly as you would want him to. Although he did say that when a slice of pizza

is very hot, it's acceptable to use a knife and fork to eat the first half of the slice if it's

too hot to pick up. I do want to note that some of the details in this episode, I later fact-checked

with Scott Wiener of Scott's

Pizza Tours, who is pretty much the world's foremost authority on pizza. Some of the details of

the early 1900s and Patsy's uncle and where he worked, it might not all be true. Some of it's a little

bit legend. But the bottom line is that Patsy Grimaldi was really one of the last living links to the very early days of pizza in America.

And so it's sad that he's gone, but his legacy lives on in his current pizzeria Giuliana's and all of the imitators that are out there as well.

So I hope you'll enjoy this episode.

Now, as a reminder, if there's an episode of the Sporkful, you want us to pull out of the deep freezer to reheat. Let us know. Drop me a line at hello at sporkful.com. Tell me your name,

location, which episode you'd like us to reheat and why. And we would be happy to do that for you.

Thanks so much. Enjoy my conversation with the Gramaldives. This is the Sporkful.

I'm standing outside 19 old Fulton Street in Brooklyn, and I want to start this show by explaining to you exactly who Patsy Grimaldi is and why I'm so excited to have him on

the Sporkful today. And this is a story that involves history and passion and revenge and

most importantly pizza.

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