Although I was born and raised in the city of New York, I am embarrassed to admit that I had never partaken in the offerings of Lombardi’s — the first pizzeria in the United States — until last year when I returned to New York and that oversight was finally corrected.

Lombardi’s: The First Pizzeria In the United States
To be honest, I am a pizza snob — primarily because I was actually born and raised in Brooklyn. To me, nothing could beat pizza from an authentic Brooklyn pizzeria — certainly not pizza in Manhattan, where I attended both high school and college and where every other pizzeria is some ersatz variation of Original Ray’s Pizza.