Pizza, A Love Story
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1h 25m
In a six-block radius of New Haven's Wooster Square sit three legendary pizza restaurants — Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern — that have been the heart of the city's Italian-American community for nearly a century. From Frank Pepe's bread cart in 1925 to the lines that still wrap around the block today, filmmaker Gorman Bechard traces the families, the rivalries, the tradition, and the love baked into every pie. Featuring Lyle Lovett, Henry Winkler, Dave Portnoy, and Rick Nielsen alongside the families who've kept the ovens burning for generations.
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