The Pepe’s-versus-Sally’s debate gained some big-city notoriety yesterday when the New York Post published an in-depth analysis on the rise and fall of New Haven pizza.

I turned to my friend George and made a pronouncement. New Haven pizza? Dead to me.

Anyone knows their pizza knows a little something about New Haven. They know that it’s not just Yale University, or a big Ikea store down on the waterfront.

Back in the day, pie aficionados and food writers from New York made many a sojourn up I-95; some critics even wagered, in public and at their peril, that the best pizza in New York was actually in New Haven.

Click here to read the rest of the New York Post’s feature on New Haven pizza.

(Photo courtesy of nypost.com.)