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How to Quit Smoking, One Illustration at a Time

Arts, Culture & Media

The owner of New York City’s punniest pizza shop illustrates his way out of his pesky smoking habit. 

Neopolitan pizza making is now part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Neapolitan pizza making wins world heritage status

Culture
A man prepares wigs as he waits for customers in downtown Johannesburg.

The hair trade is a billion-dollar global industry

Books
The fake KFC in West Tehran thought it had obtained approval from the country's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Mines.

Iranians tussle over a KFC outlet, but the clash is actually about so much more

Business
One of Sean Berthiaume's comic illustrations about quitting smoking.

How to quit smoking, one illustration at a time

Arts
Tony Gemignani's Neapolitan margherita pizza.

How Tony Gemignani shocked the pizza world

Food

San Francisco chef Tony Gemignani loves Neapolitan pizza. He also loves to compete. So a few years back, Gemignani put it all to the test by entering the World Pizza Cup in Naples — and winning.

Pizzas

Think you want authentic Italian pizza? Think again

Global Scan

Many a tourist to Italy has relished the country’s famous pizza. But could that pizza be dangerous? An Italian TV news report says so — but the pizza industry is crying foul. That story and more in today’s Global Scan.

Scott Wiener's current favorite pizza box is the VENTiT from India, which allows "crust-damaging steam to escape without sacrificing necessary heat."

Where does the perfect pizza box come from? Try India

Arts, Culture & Media

Professional pizza enthusiast Scott Wiener has written a book about pizza boxes from around the world. He says he found the perfect pizza box in India.

Totonno's Pizzeria in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY.

A year after Sandy, a Coney Island legend is slinging more pizza than ever

Environment

Superstorm Sandy ravaged Totonno’s at Coney Island in Brooklyn. It’s the oldest family-run pizza joint in the US — and perhaps the origin of Neapolitan-style pies in the country. The family was determined to rebuild it for “grandpa.”

The World

Smuggling Pizza Ingredients Into Canada

Conflict & Justice

For our Geo Quiz we’re trying to track down some pizza rustlers, some cheese pizza rustlers. Police in Southern Ontario are investigating an unusual criminal case that involves some local pizzerias.