nathenson's digital garbage » Pittsburgh http://digitalgarbage.net dumpster-diving for bits about law, info, tech, and culture Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 250 years of Pittsburgh innovation http://digitalgarbage.net/2008/11/20/250-years-of-pittsburgh-innovation/ http://digitalgarbage.net/2008/11/20/250-years-of-pittsburgh-innovation/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:14 +0000 Ira Nathenson http://digitalgarbage.net/?p=447 I’m originally from Pittsburgh, a town whose greatness goes beyond the Steelers, great pizza, and the world-famous Primanti’s sandwich.  Here’s a great video of a quarter-millennium of Pittsburgh innovation, from the Heinz History Center:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Particularly great are three pizza places within two blocks of one another on Murray Avenue, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh: Napoli Pizzeria, Aiello’s Pizza, and my lifelong favorite, Mineo’s Pizza House. Mineo’s has been a Pittsburgh institution since 1958. It’s so popular with expatriate Pittsburghers that it sends pies via FedEx to Mineo’s-deprived fans. My first Mineo’s pie, which I had when I was 5 or 6, was a life-changing experience, and I’ve been a loyal customer ever since.

Mineo's Pizza House

I recently had a chance to re-visit Mineo’s and it was every bit as good as I remembered. We quickly devoured a large pie (half plain, half with onions and green pepper). Living in South Florida, I’m somewhat pizza-deprived. There’s a lot of good and varied food in South Florida, and I particularly enjoy the many good sushi and Thai restaurants. But I have yet to find a pizza place that comes close to the best of Pittsburgh.

Note: transplanted from personal blog.

]]> http://digitalgarbage.net/2008/08/05/mineos-pizza/feed/ 0 Congratulations to Jurist! http://digitalgarbage.net/2006/05/09/congratulations-to-jurist/ http://digitalgarbage.net/2006/05/09/congratulations-to-jurist/#comments Tue, 09 May 2006 19:30:00 +0000 Ira Nathenson http://digitalgarbage.net/?p=6 Congratulations to my former mentor and current colleague & friend Bernard Hibbitts for winning a “People’s Voice” Webby award for his Jurist law website. Very cool, and very, very richly deserved.

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