Australia Wins World Pizza Contest

(New York) Pizza-making teams from countries around the world, including Italy, the United States, France and New Zealand, were rated inferior to Australian pizza-makers at the America's Plate competition in New York. Theo Kalogeracos of Little Caesar's in Mundaring, Western Australia, and Andy Parisi of La Trattoria Restaurant in Adelaide cooked up an Oyster Kilpatrick Pizza, a chocolate pizza known as Mud Honey, and a pizza based on the traditional American pecan pie to take the prize.

"I think the difference in Australia is that we really rely on fresh ingredients. Over here, no offence meant, but the New York pizzas are terrible," Mr. Kalogeracos told ABC radio in Perth.

Try saying that in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, or Hell's Kitchen, or Flatbush and you'll be treated to good old American Bada-Bing Pizza, always a winner.