Viva La Pizza! The Art Of The Pizza Box

Description

The world's expert on pizza boxes collects 100 weird and wild box designs and explores the curious history of the pizza box. Included are international designs, corporate designs and dozens of quirky images produced by and for local pizzerias. In Viva La Pizza! - named after a popular box design - Wiener traces design trends over the past 40 years and speaks to some of the world's most prolific box designers. The result is a captivating look at pizza culture and a new way to look at one of the world's favourite foods.

"SCOTT WIENER's writing appears online at Serious Eats and on his blog, Scott's Pizza Journal. His award-winning column, Man on the Street, appears monthly in Pizza Today Magazine. He is the founder of Scott's Pizza Tours, which guides tourists and New Yorkers though the history, science, and culture of New York City pizza (www.scottspizzatours.com). The tours have been featured on the Food Network, the Cooking Channel, the Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, Lonely Planet, and a host of other outlets. Wiener maintains the world's largest archive of unique pizza boxes."

"Delightful and informative." -New York Times "A little slice of art." -Wall Street Journal "[This] new book answers questions you probably never asked." -USA Today "An intensely researched love song to [pizza boxes]." -Wired "[This] fascinating book shows pizza boxes like you've never seen, emblazoned with artful images so original and unexpected they would be at home in a food museum." -Sacramento Bee "The detail to which Wiener chronicles the boxes is kind of insane." -Hyper Allergic "One of the most effusive displays of love for corrugated cardboard the world will ever know." -The Independent (UK) "You may never have thought of old takeaway containers as works of art, but New Yorker Scott Wiener is so obsessed with their myriad designs that he's written an entire book about them." -Time Out (UK) "Scott has forgotten more about pizza than most people have ever known!" -Jeffrey Saad, Food Network "I never thought anybody'd be writing a book about this." -Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza