Providence Day Six: It's All About The Food

In Plotnik's experience, it's always the places that look like these that surprise you with great pizza. They never look like much from the outside, they have give-away free news sheets like The South Providence Gazette lying around on all the tables, Mom is somewhere in the equation and her boys are behind the counter and speak with an un-namable accent.



Providence Pizza is thin crust, but it's not that useless crackery gourmet-y stuff that passes for pizza crust in Saint Plotniko, and it's not the usual thicker but doughy stuff that most NY pizzerias get away with these days. Thin crust with bite: how do they do that? Certainly, the pepperoni pizza pie at Boulevard Pizza in South Providence was far and away the best the Plotniks have tasted in the East. And there are three pieces still in the fridge AND there is nobody else up yet!



Last night Plot, Duck, BZ and Ben-Z went to their third Italian restaurant on Federal Hill (there are at least 30 of them, maybe more). This one was called Angela's and was different then the rest -- cheap! Plotnik's veal and peppers was the real deal and BZ's fetuccinni with pink vodka sauce was crazy good.



Earlier in the day, Plot and Duck discovered South Providence. There is a university there called Johnson and Wales, which is all about food. It offers degrees in the culinary arts, and its Museum of the Culinary Arts is what attracted Plot and Duck to Boulevard Pizza, which is around the corner, in the first place. What a museum! They have a permanent exhibition on the history of the American Diner which is mind-blowingly interesting and fun to walk through.



Rooms full of old stoves! Martha Washington's recipe book and General Washington's china! Old mahogany bars from two hundred year old taverns, and ice cream scoops through the ages. This was a museum designed with Plotnik in mind.



It's Saturday and the promised rain has arrived. Plot and Duck only have a few meals, that is, days left, so they must be used wisely.