Jim Ellison
Jim Ellison has been eating his whole life and has gotten pretty good at it. Along the way, he started writing about his adventures for his blog, CMH Gourmand (in 2006), magazines, websites and even content for the early days of CU. In the realm of pizza, most recently he wrote the book, 'Columbus Pizza: A Slice of History' however long-time Columbus Underground fans will recall him as the instigator of Pizza Grand Prix I - VI. Writer, eater, enabler and champion for mom & pop pizzerias, he covers pizza places, pizza culture and occasionally other culinary rabbit holes as our carb-craving correspondent. You will find him on Instagram at @CbusPizzaHistory.
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Aficionadough: Columbus Pizzeria Confidential
The pizza business is different from the rest of...
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Old School Eats: Thurn’s Specialty Meats – The Final Cut
On December 19, 2023 Thurn’s Specialty Meats posted a Facebook message that traveled like a Blitzkrieg through Columbus. It was shared 140 times with 200 plus comments. The business announced the last day for the retail shop would be Saturday, May 24, 2024 (Memorial Day Weekend). An already busy holiday week became a juggernaut of customers that has not subsided as we progress to the countdown on the countertop. It was a journey of four generations of tradesmen, butchering at the highest level to get to this final cut.
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Old School Eats: Windward Passage – Seafood and Cinnamon Rolls
Here’s the thing about Windward Passage. You get it or...
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Aficionadough: Antolino’s Pizza has a New Location and New Vibe
Antolino’s Pizza originated on Morse Road during the silver...
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Aficionadough: No Minuses for Bexley Pizza Plus
Bexley Pizza Plus (BPP) seems to be off the pizza radar of Columbus. I have not dropped in for almost a year. Both of...
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Aficionadough: Bazemore Pizza – I Want More!
I have been keeping tabs on Bazemore Pizza since it debuted in early summer of 2023. I was intrigued by the self-described east coast...
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Aficionadough: Stadz – Pizza, Meatballs and Music
In 2020, I started to notice Blacklick's Stadz Pizza on several top ten pizza lists among the local pizza consigliere. I had an impromptu...
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Aficionadough: A Bakery with a Pizzeria or a Pizzeria with a Bakery?
There can be barriers to the great things in life: geography, socioeconomic status, prejudices, and so on. In the case of Columbus, it is...
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Old School Eats: York Steak House is a Meat-and-Potato Fueled Time Machine
The Columbus of the 1970s was very different from the metropolis of today. Our misplaced navel gazing and inferiority complex was even stronger then, in a city striving to be like Chicago, New York and/or LA. Columbus started the era progressively adding key elements to our world of today: the first mall, the first ATM, a critical paradigm shift in interactive cable television known as Qube, but beyond those advancements, our city was pushing the envelope in an even more important arena - food.
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Aficionadough: Love at First Bite at Angelina’s Villa
Angelina’s Villa opened in 1987 but it first landed on my radar in 2022 when I noticed the business on Instagram. Due to age...
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Aficionadough: Tommy’s Pizza…Aging Empire vs. Post-Pandemic Pizzeria Plights
For those readers that know my body of work...
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Aficionadough: Sexton’s Pizza – A Well-Done Trip Through Many Pizza Styles
There seems to be something about Sexton’s. This pizza...
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Aficionadough: Classic Italian-American Fare to Taco Pizza – Evviva Villa Nova!
In middle school, my first visit to Villa Nova...
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Aficionadough: Going Back (to the New) Gatto’s
There is a Columbus Style pizza. Gatto’s was not...