It’s simple: Bill Schnupp is cooking the food he likes to eat. Schnupp, along with partner Justin Washington, opened JB’s Smokehouse (211 Main Street, East Rochester) in June, with a menu that has all of the meats you’d expect from a quality barbecue joint — cooked in a style that isn’t quite Texas BBQ nor […]
Fiamma
Posted inCulture
Fired up
Pollsters tell us that more than 90 percent of Americans eat pizza at least once a month, and statistically we consume some 350 slices of pizza per second. Pizza is probably as universally popular a food as there is in this great land of ours. The vast majority of that pizza is baked in gas […]
Posted inCulture
CHOW HOUND: Tip Jar
Until cloning becomes more affordable, I can’t be everywhere at once. That’s why I rely upon a stealthy network of well-placed informants for food intel, along with intriguing tidbits submitted by hungry readers like you. But reporting on the recent avalanche of new restaurants has left little room for me to empty the ol’ tip […]
Posted inCulture
CHOW HOUND: Fiamma, Finger Lakes Restaurant Week, and more
I watched Fiamma co-owner Giuseppe Paciullo slide his pizza-laden peel into a wood-burning oven aglow with flame, turned around to jot something down, then, less than a minute later, heard shocked noises coming from photographer Matt DeTurck: “It’s done!?” Forty-five seconds. That’s how long co-owner Robby Brockler says it takes for Fiamma’s Neapolitan pizza oven, […]
