Ruth Reichl’s Ultimate New York City Snack Crawl

"Pizza "Nancy Silverton was in town a few weeks ago, and said, 'You have to go. I'm sending all my chefs. Their dough is so fantastic.' Nancy makes pizza. If she tells you, 'You've got to go eat this pizza,' you go eat the pizza. And it is really fantastic. I mean, the idea that this guy from Florence decided he was gonna do a kind of hybrid between New York pizza and Neapolitan pizza and do a thin crust, but make the crust really good? I'm a pizza purist: pizza margherita, do not put a lot of junk on my pizza. I don't love a Hawaiian pizza. I don't even like pepperoni. Just give me the tomato, the mozzarella, a little parm, a little olive oil, maybe some basil. That's it. So I'm so happy that they've opened in Manhattan now, because if Nancy had said, 'You have to go to Brooklyn,' I'm not sure I would have gotten there so quickly. But when she said, 'Look, it's right there. It's down in the Village,' I was on the subway the next day." - brennan carley