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• Does Best Pizza in Williamsburg live up to its name? (Who cares! Try the chicken parm.)
• America's got a crush on sherry.

François Payard. Photo: Alex Van Buren

"It's OK," François Payard told the assembled schoolchildren, many of whom looked suspicious. "The first time my girlfriend made me this pizza I tried to run out the door."

A world-renowned chef consoling kids about the charms of pizza? There's a role reversal. But many of them had folded their arms and were eyeing the pastry czar as he basted a whole wheat pita with sauce, lentils and -- gasp -- tofu. New Yorkers, even young ones up, know their pizza pies. Tofu is not usually part of the bargain.

The reaction to those pizzas and soy chocolate mousse, after the jump.