East Nashville Tomato Festival, August 11

[Marybeth]

East Nashville Tomato Art Fest Longs for the Perfect Pizza

What makes the perfect pizza? Ask this question over a couple of cold beers and you could have a shouting match on your hands.

Do you long for the stringy mozzarella over crunchy thin crust, which you enjoyed at late night hours with college friends? Can you recite the phone number to the take-out place down the street, the one with the never-as-fast-as-they-promise home delivery, but the better-than-you-can-describe pepperoni and sausage special? Or are these options far too mundane for you, the pizza gourmand who prefers a pesto base, with toppings like artichokes and goat cheese?

The East Nashville Tomato Art Fest invites you to tell us about your favorite pizza in our 2007 Tomato Fest Pizza Recipe contest. Send us your story; tell us what you like and why you like it. And then give us a recipe for your best pie. Stories should be 50-100 words (no, we won’t count, but we’re just saying that it doesn’t have to be a long story). And recipes may be for the pizza of your dreams, or the closest approximation you can manage in your kitchen. Our only rule: tomatoes must be involved – some how, some way. Use them in your sauce, or as a topping. Heck, roll them into the crust. We don’t care. Just use them.

E-mail submissions to mypizzaisbest@hotmail.com. We’ll post a sampling online so you can see how others like their pie. Check in on the pizza progress each Monday at the Tomato Fest Web site: www.tomatoartfest.com.

And, if you’re in Nashville for the Tomato Fest on August 11, we encourage you to enter our pizza contest in person. Make your pizza, deliver it for tasting to our celebrity judges, and win fabulous prizes! Yes, we said FABULOUS prizes. And, if you’re the lucky winner, you just might see your recipe featured on a menu at a favorite Nashville pizza haunt.

[carpetbagger, esq.]

sadly, the two or three best pizzas i think i've ever had lacked tomatoes as an ingredient.

time to put on the thinking cap and hopefully come up with something worth submitting to the judges, as i am all about fabulous prizes.