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| Wouldn't this be better with bourbon? Photo: flickr, rick |
For the second consecutive year, Tony Boombozz pizzeria is saluting the state's leading spirit with bourbon pizza, a corn-liquor variation on the standard barbecued chicken pie.
According to the snack's rapidly evolving lore, Four Roses master distiller Jim Rutledge first nudged Tony Palmobino, who owns the four-outlet gourmet pizza chain, to create the pie at last year's Kentucky Bourbon Festival. He tinkered with a few concepts before settling on the bourbon-and-bacon concoction.
"We use hickory-grilled chicken, applewood bacon, asiago and mozzarella cheeses and then drizzle it with a bourbon barbecue sauce," explains Cindy Anderson, who manages Tony Boombozz's beer-and-wine-only Springhurst location. "It's delicious."
