Think you know your favorite pizza?
Maybe you know your favorite pizza memory.
The Slice Scorebook: The 52-Slice Challenge is a smart, funny, obsession-fueled guided journal for anyone ready to stop casually declaring “best slice ever” and start paying real attention.
Over fifty-two weeks, readers take on a full pizza-scoring challenge designed to sharpen taste, test assumptions, and turn opinion into something more interesting than nostalgia.
Created by lifelong pizza obsessive Sal Petrucci, this book gives you a complete one-year program for tracking, rating, comparing, and revisiting the slices you eat. You will score your old favorites, try styles you have ignored, make the drive for the hyped place, go back for the rematch, and eventually crown your pizza of the year.
Inside, you’ll find:
• 52 guided pizza scorecards
• A full scoring system built around crust, sauce, cheese, char, balance, the third bite, the moment, and the return
• A structured 52-week challenge with phases like Baseline, Unfamiliar, Pilgrimage, Rematch, Deep Cut, Fast, and Verdict
• Style and neighborhood trackers
• Pizza missions and a final tournament bracket
• A voice that is funny, opinionated, and deeply serious about pizza without taking itself too seriously
This book is for:
• Pizza lovers who want more than a blank food journal
• Gift buyers shopping for pizza fans, foodies, and home cooks
• Anyone who has ever argued about foldability vs cheese ratio
This is not a chef’s manual. It is not a glossy coffee-table pizza book. It is a hands-on companion for people who love pizza enough to write things down.
By the end of the year, you will not just have eaten more pizza. You will have a record of your taste, a ranking you can defend, and a much better answer to the question: what makes a slice worth going back for?
