From the beginning, Hughes pictured spending his PhD program at York University studying American history — not embarking on a multi-year pizza quest across Toronto and Buffalo, New York. “I ultimately came to research the history of pizza in Toronto and Buffalo between 1950 and 1990,” the 31-year-old historian told the Star. “In 1950, Toronto and Buffalo were actually rather similar cities, they had similar percentage of Italian immigrants and also similar economic output,” Hughes said. After receiving his PhD in 2022, Hughes took a break from researching pizza to study the cultural and environmental history of Etobicoke. “Even though I go and eat at these pizza restaurants, it’s not necessarily what they made in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

Source: thestar April 08, 2023 03:10 UTC