Celeste Lizio, 80, better known as ”Mama Celeste,” was the woman behind the face on ”Celeste” frozen pizza boxes and is best remembered for exclaiming ”abbondanza (abundance)” in the product`s ...

Pizza maker CELESTE LIZIO, 80, whose Mama Celeste pizzas bore her name and her Italian cooking skills, died Friday of a heart ailment. Lizio’s likeness began appearing on millions of packages of ...

Frozen pizza and I—we go back a long way. Mama Celeste cooked for me nearly as much as my actual mom did when I was growing up. By age nine, I’d eaten my way through the Giant freezer aisle. There was ...

”Ugh!” grunted one panel member after completing a recent Food Guide tasting of 10 brands of supermarket frozen pizza. ”I`m glad that`s over.” His sentiments on the hour-long ordeal of chomping ...

An arc, mathematicians will tell you, is a curve connecting two points at either end. A brick arc, in sandstone the color of espresso, joins two points in the life of Jim Flanagan, his then and his ...