When Instagram Suggested ‘@pizza_jew’ for a New Account Name, He Went With It

A by-the-numbers account of the rise of New Jersey pizzaiolo Michael Fitzick

Adam Erace
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7 min readJun 26, 2020

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Photos: Adam Erace

New and old burns flow down Michael Fitzick’s forearms. Pick one and follow it like a river to the deltas of his hands, half-sunk into a pan of pizza dough, glowing with oil, stretching into fingers with…

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