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Slice of America: Pizza Documentary Premiere at the New Haven Museum at New Haven Museum
The New Haven Museum and Best Video will join forces to present director Gorman Bechard and pizza historian Colin M. Caplan for the premiere screening of “Slice of America: Charred in the Florida Sun,” on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 7 p.m., preceded by a wine/beer reception at 6 p.m. with pizza bites from Pepe’s, Sally’s, and Modern. A Q&A will follow with Bechard, Caplan, and the film’s star, Jimmy Fantin. Tickets available here.
Bechard hopes to spread awareness of how New Haven-style “apizza” (pronounced: ah-beetz) is spreading all over the country. “New Haven Apizza is exploding,” he says. “There’s a proclamation in Congress that recently named New Haven the ‘Pizza Capital of the World.’” He calls the film “a true fish-out-of-water story, or should we say, apizza-out-of-Connecticut story,” about a New Haven native with a love for the city’s beloved apizza who does the impossible by bringing the charred, thin-crusted, “best pizza in the world” to southern Florida.
