Posted by Michael Stern
, August 31, 2008 06:10
Thick slices of red and yellow tomato fresh off the vine, disks of sunny summer squash, sweet corn kernels cut straight from the cob, a scattering of tiny champagne grapes, and curls of crisp-edged pancetta, along with a gossamer veil of creamy cheese, adorn the magnificent chewy crust that emerges from the wood-fired oven at Pizzeria Lauretano in Bethel, Connecticut. An off-the-menu special only for a few weeks at the end of summer when all ingredients are at their peak, this flatbread cornucopia was known last year as the Harvest Pizza, and this year it is the Garden Pizza: Roadfood Exhibit #1001 in the case for Connecticut being America's pizza paradise.
