You’d have to track them down, and you could because those brick ovens are really easy to find. You’d have underground rebels cooking that pizza, illegally. So if I were writing universes, then those pizzas would be available in abundance, and Sicilian or deep dish pizza, probably not so much. I prefer NY-style pizza, or Italian pizza that you have to eat with a fork and a knife – the super thin crust pizza. I don’t really like deep-dish pizza, sorry Chicago.

Maybe there would be a universe where there would be no deep-dish pizza. So I feel like I don’t know how vastly different pizza would be in an alternate universe. Pizza with marshmallows and peanut butter? That exists. They have exhausted all of the pizza options that could possibly exist. But… I realized that there’s nothing we could invent that hasn’t already been invented by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The whole thing about alternate universes is that anything that could exist does exist in a parallel universe. So is there any evidence that pizza is different in alternate universes?Į.C.: I’ve been thinking about this question.

A question came in from the audience – our first from the Twitterverse! fires up the stove for our latest Cooking the Books.

From pizza and french fries, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cooking to Master Chef, and more eclectic offerings on the menu, join us as E.C. We lured him to Cooking the Books with a peanut-butter laden trap, and while we have him in our power, we’ll ask him about the kinds of food found in speculative young adult fiction. Myers is the mild-mannered superhero behind the award-winning YA alternate universe duology: Fair Coin and Quantum Coin.

Fair Coin by E.C. Myers