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The following article was written by our very own Ben Lariccia! Take the time to read all about Brier Hill Pizza! I love it when food actually has a history! Brier Hill Pizza, A Youngstown Favorite by Ben Lariccia Cities love their comfort foods. Baltimore craves its crab cakes. Philadelphia boasts an iconic cheese steak. Buffalo can’t do without its spicy chicken wings. Well, in the Greater Youngstown region it’s Brier Hill pizza. Brier Hill pizza can be found all over Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, and for good reason. Its simple, healthy, and delicious. The pizza is built on a thick, but airy, yeast dough crust with a crispy underside that echoes the focaccia of Central and Southern Italy. Aside from the tomato sauce, oil, and sweet peppers, the only other essential ingredient of this regional delicacy is a sprinkling of grated Romano cheese. No high fat mozzarella here. Thats it and thats enough for many Youngstowners. What did this local delicacy have to do with Brier Hill, a Youngstown neighborhood that was once home of Youngstown Sheet and Tube and many Italian families? According to longtime Brier Hill residents Fred and Josephine Ross (Rossi), the Hill was blessed with several wood-fired brick ovens, the outdoor type. In a recent interview with Youngstown historian Thomas Welsh, the couple explained that slightly damaged or irregular firebricks from the mill’s open hearth ovens came home with neighborhood steelworkers. They built the ovens. So Brier Hill had ample resources where its residents could bake bread and pizza. Another neighborhood resource was homegrown produce. In Fred Ross words, during the Depression, Brier Hill survived by a garden. It was during this time that many families received welfare in the form of flour and lard. Brier Hills backyard gardens supplied the rest of the ingredients: tomatoes and sweet green peppers. Add some oil and grated cheese and Youngstowns iconic pizza was born. Use the steel lid of the lard can and you had a durable pizza pan. You find Brier Hill-style pizza up and down Greater Youngstown, and beyond. An informal survey found it on the menu at 35 local pizzerias, restaurants, and taverns. Even a bistro in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, offers this Youngstown treat. And this traditional treat is made weekly at St. Anthony’s Church, Brier Hill. Though the steel industry in Youngstown has mostly disappeared, the legacy of a historic steelmaking neighborhood lives on in one of the area’s signature dishes, Brier Hill pizza. N.B. This article appeared in a somewhat different version in La Gazzetta Italiana Newspaper.

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