Whole SlVce Pizza to bring the taste of New York City to Tucson’s Mercado District

Grace DeJong, El Inde Arizona Tucson restaurateur Ari Shapiro has teamed up with veteran baker Travis Evans onWhole SlVce pizza, a walkup New York-style pizza joint on the ground floor of the MonierBuilding, west of downtown. “New York-style has definitely been a missing ‘piece’ here in the City of Gastronomy,”said Bailey Hennessy, a New York…

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Donna Nordin: Chef, Teacher & Legend

By Tatyana Johnson/El Inde After a long day of walking around the busy streets of France and sightseeing with their tourist group, it is almost dinner time. Diane Sanchez slides past one of her travel companions’ workstations and hurries back to finish her preparations for her part of the group’s meal. Each person, assigned by…

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Tucson’s Late-Night Church

The bright lights of the Waffle House off Tucson’s Grant and I-10 pierce the night at 2 a.m. like a kind of comforting beacon to all who may enter. Inside, the quiet hum of the lighting feels almost like a church-like quietness, punctuated only by the scripture of the cook’s spatula on the grill and the crackling noise of eggs frying on the skillet.

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