DOUGH DREAMS.(The Talk of the Town)(George Giove)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-APR-04

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George Giove, a twenty-nine-year-old journeyman pizzaiolo (Italian for "pizza guy"), competes for the United States Pizza Team. He made his name in the freestyle pizza toss, on the strength of his double-dough toss-and-spin moves (across the shoulders, behind the back, through the legs, the whip, and the kick-flip), and for the creativity and flair of his routine, which he performs to pop music. Giove has a compact, chesty build, salami-size forearms, and quick hands. He speaks in a mixture of Brooklynese (when his grandparents came to America with their three sons, in 1971, they opened a pizzeria in Borough Park) and Staten Islandese (when Giove...

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