It turns out that Matthew’s Pizza, Baltimore’s oldest and most famous pizza shop, has been serving a pizza pie distinctive to the region of Massachusetts where I grew up — a fact that occurred to me only recently. That I failed to recognize a Matthews Pizza as a South Shore Bar Pizza is possibly due … Continue reading Something like South Shore Bar Pizza has been baking in Baltimore for 82 years
The origins of the Christmas story in ‘Baltimore, You Have No Idea’
A long time ago, when I read The Boston Globe every day, there was a reporter-turned-columnist named Jeremiah V. Murphy. He was an engaging writer. I remember a specific column he wrote about divorced fathers separated from their kids during the holidays. The sentiments expressed in the column were deeply empathetic, and the whole idea … Continue reading The origins of the Christmas story in ‘Baltimore, You Have No Idea’
Dan Rodricks 