SOME IMPORTANT THOUGHTS ON PIZZA:

You can get by with ordinary cheese; you can give people that pillow-soft puffed-up crust some adore. But without good sauce in sufficient quantities, it’s not pizza. Just so we’re clear.

I agree. Good crust is important, and so is cheese, but the sauce is the thing. And I particularly dislike the trend, in some quarters, of largely omitting the sauce in favor of a quarter-pound of cheese per slice. If I wanted cheese toast, I’d order cheese toast.

UPDATE: Deep fried pizza?