Look Up in the Sky: It?s a Bird, It?s a Plane ? No, It?s a Kosher Pizza www.flyingpizzas.com

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A pizza, it is true, looks like a flying saucer, or even a giant frisbee. But despite their appearance, pizzas won’t fly unless they are Eddie Fishbaum’s “Flying Pizzas,” baked at Brooklyn’s Broadway’s Jerusalem 2 pizza parlor, which is OU certified.

Eddie’s pizzas fly wherever Federal Express will take them, which is far indeed. They have gone to a honeymooning couple at the Grand Canyon, to Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and all across North America, not to mention Russia, South America, Europe and Asia.

Eddie’s website http://www.flyingpizzas.com includes the following pizza and non-pizza selections: “Real New York Pizza,” for $19.95 with free shipping; one pound of cinnamon rugelach (a small, very tasty pastry), for $17.95, also with free shipping; a “Broadway Gift Pack,”
including one pizza and a pound of rugelach for $32.90; two pounds of rugelach, for $32.95; four cheese pizzas for $64.92 with free shipping; 12 cheese pizzas for $179.95, and other treats.

Eddie Fishbaum has been in the pizza business since he started making kosher pies after school in Brooklyn, NY when he was 12 years old. By the age of 14, Eddie was a master pizza maker, serving as many as 300 pies in a single day. Years later, he and his brother Ari (now deceased) opened Jerusalem 2, on Broadway, in the Manhattan Garment Center, not far from Times Square. Now the business is based in Brooklyn, where he serves some 2,000 pizzas every week (except during Passover), plus other dishes.

In November 1995, after developing special packaging, the brothers started flying their pizzas, according to Eddie, “because so many people from all over the country ask us to open up a pizza store in their neighborhood.

We’re giving them the next best thing. It’s as if they have us right next door.”

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