#pizza

Van Leeuwen Launches Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and Pizza Ice CreamsChocolate and vanilla are so yesterday, Van Leeuwen is taking ice cream to the future with seven wild new flavors.The most tantalizing in their lineup : macaroni and cheese-flavored ice cream. Van Leeuwen is turning the iconic Kraft Macaroni & Cheese into pint sized frozen goodness. The mac and cheese ice cream immediately caused a frenzy that left Van Leeuwen’s website crashing and the products sold out within minutes of going on sale.The mac and cheese flavor is one among seven new flavors to be launched at Walmart locations across 50 states nationwide. The other flavors include Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Planet Earth, Pizza, Hot Honey, Royal Wedding Cake, Bourbon Cherries Jubilee and Wild Blueberry Shortcake. The brand-new offerings, retailed at $4.98 a pint, will be available in 3,500 Walmart locations for a 10-week rotation.#icecream #VanLeeuwen #macaronicheese #pizza #walmart #flavorSource: Fox17/WZTV

The Real Man Behind Chef BoyardeeEttore Boiardi began cooking as a child, and was only 11 years old when he started his first job at a restaurant. He left his native Italy and moved to New York at age 16. Boiardi joined his brother working at the Plaza Hotel where he worked his way up to head chef by age 17! In 1926, while still in his 20s, Boiardi opened his first restaurant. His spaghetti sauce was so popular that he put it in milk bottles to send home with his customers. From there, it was a short jump to selling his sauce canned in grocery stores. By then he had simplified his name to Hector Boyardee so Americans could easily pronounce it, and he marketed his sauce under the name Chef Boy-Ar-Dee. Boiardi hit the big time with his spaghetti kit, consisting of a can of sauce, uncooked pasta, and a small container of parmesan cheese. The line of goods later grew with pizza kits and canned pasta. He opened a factory in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1938 because it was a good area to grow tomatoes. Local farmers also grew mushrooms for Boiardi, and he became the USA's biggest importer of olive oil and parmesan cheese. When World War II came, he expanded his operations to provide rations for American GIs. Then after the war, a few bad investments and Boiardi's reluctance to lay off his war workers led him to sell the company. He stayed on as an advertising spokesman for two more decades, however. If it's hard to reconcile the image of an acclaimed chef with the sugary canned pasta in stores today, you aren't the only one with that opinion. Bioardi's descendants aren't too keen to claim the products as they are today. The company is now owned by ConAgra. -via Cracked#food #brand #pizza #spaghetti #ChefBoyardee

Piestro the Robotic Pizza Vending Machine that Makes Pizza from ScratchA freshly made pizza from a vending machine sounds too good to be true! Well, soon enough we might just be able to buy a pizza from one. El Segundo-based Piestro is now developing a one-of-a-kind pizza-making machine that will be sold to other companies.Piestro claims that their machine can create a pizza from scratch in about three minutes. Customers can watch the machine working on their orders through a giant window, where it utilizes its robotic arms to create and finish a pizza. The system’s premise and functionality seem to have taken the hearts of potential buyers, as the $100,000-machine already has 5,000 pre-orders. Image credit: Rich DeMuro gif via KTLA #pizza #Piestro #pizzavendingmachine #technology #food #vendingmachine