In 1928, Picasso stretched a mozzarella canvas on a flaky golden crust and slathered it in marinara sauce, creating the world's first nonrepresentational pizza. Spearhead culinary innovation with today’s Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of pizza, pasta, and sandwiches at Jobi’s Pizza in Virginia Beach.
Jobi’s Pizza's staff of dough whisperers shapes a hearty menu of pizza, pasta, and classic Italian cuisine. Tuck the tablecloth into your shirt before digging into a specialty pizza ($12.95/12") such as the works pie, a belly-stuffing behemoth piled with eight toppings including bacon, green pepper, and a 5-ton sprig of parsley. Classic Italian entrees such as fettuccine alfredo ($9.95) let diners play with forks and knives, and sandwiches such as the sirloin-stuffed philly cheese steak ($5.45/6") give grabby hands a chance to shine. Because today's Groupon is for dine-in only, patrons have a welcome excuse to linger among the padded booths, red-checked tablecloths, and carved-garlic statues of Christopher Columbus that bedeck Jobi's interior.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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