{"id":23261,"date":"2019-06-26T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23261"},"modified":"2019-06-26T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:21:10","slug":"waldys-pizza-and-crossing-borders-with-other-arts-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=23261","title":{"rendered":"waldy’s pizza, and crossing borders with other arts as well"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes we order pizza. We rotate among several really excellent shops, and they’re their styles are totally individual. They are not all Italian.<\/p>\n

This past Sunday seemed to have been wrapped up in one thousand and one days. I’ll explain.<\/p>\n

We ordered pizza in the evening, but it felt even more special than usual.<\/p>\n

We had begun around noon with a breakfast accompanied by music incorporating Jewish, Christian and Muslim Psalms from the 16th & 17th centuries, performed by an ensemble formed specifically to bridge the geography of those cultures.<\/p>\n

That afternoon we were in Sunset Park for a theatrical performance, ‘News of the Strange’<\/a>, whose inspiration came from the medieval Arabian fantasies of ‘One Thousand and One Nights<\/a>‘, a collection of folk tales associated with the middle east. The work may not actually have originated in the Middle East, and it can speak to a much broader, multicultural world today, an assignment which guided the theater company’s mainstage season as well as the ‘lab’ works associated with it.<\/p>\n

When we got home, we ordered a Waldy’s pizza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pizza is literally out of this world, or at least somewhat out of Italy: Waldy Malouf<\/a> was blessed with\u00a0a Sicilian grandmother, a Lebanese grandmother and grandfather, and a mother he has described as a New England farm girl. It seems to have worked, and some of his work fit nicely into a day in which we enjoyed opening a number of cultural borders.<\/p>\n

By the way, it’s not a round pie, not a square pie, but a beautiful, very thin crust, rounded rectangular pie, with spectacular ingredients.<\/p>\n

The music that night continued the theme running through the day, having been described in 2003 by the New York Times as:<\/p>\n

A Western period instrument group jams with a Turkish band, setting off sparks and shedding delightful light on whole musical ages and cultures.<\/em><\/p>\n