Sentence examples for tomato pie from inspiring English sources
noun
A kind of pizza topped with tomato sauce, made by Italian-American communities in the American Northeast.
TAMMY LA GORCE Tomato Pie, 20 South Street, Morristown.
Ida Mae learned to make blackberry cobbler and tomato pie.
Eggplant and Tomato Pie Tomatoes have another week or so to go in most farmers' markets.
The cheese and tomato pie is impeccably fresh, and other toppings only enhance.
WHAT WE LIKED Tomato pie with mozzarella (add pepperoni or shrimp); fresh clam pie with white sauce, no cheese.
Unlike pizza, the Jersey tomato pie is "cheese first, sauce on top," explained the owner, Marco Graziano.
In addition to basic tomato pies, the restaurant offers a rectangular Grandma Pie ($18) made with hand-crushed plum tomatoes.
That's because the 100-seat restaurant, with simple décor and long banquettes, is in the business of making tomato pies, which, while pizzalike, are not exactly pizzas.
Frank Pepe started it all in 1925, when he fired up his coal oven and started making tomato pies with a thin crust — a local style known as "apizza".
It all began in 1925 when baker Frank Pepe started making thin-crust "tomato pies" in a coke-fired oven at his eponymous restaurant, Frank Pepe at 157 Wooster Street.
Not bad for a 59-year-old writer who loves tomato pies and Tastykakes -- a taste in junk food that betrays her South Jersey roots.
