Since the origins of to-go pizza, pizzerias and pizza chains have taken great pride in covering take-out boxes with captivating designs. They've also wrestled with the best way to manufacture a box that can keep a pizza looking and tasting great.
Here, the world's expert on pizza boxes presents more than one hundred weird and wild box designs and explores the curious history of the pizza box. Included are international designs, corporate designs, and dozens of quirky images from mom-and-pop pizzerias.
Where does all this art come from? Scott Wiener has been collecting and cataloging pizza boxes for more than five years. In Viva la Pizza!, Wiener traces design trends over the past four decades and profiles some of the world's most prolific box designers and manufacturers. The result is a captivating overview of pizza culture and a new way to look at one of the world's favorite foods.

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SCOTT WIENER's writing appears online at Serious Eats and on his blog, Scott's Pizza Journal. His award-winning column, "Man on the Street," appears monthly in Pizza Today Magazine. He is the founder of Scott's Pizza Tours, which guides tourists and New Yorkers though the history, science, and culture of New York City pizza (www.scottspizzatours.com). The tours have been featured on the Food Network, the Cooking Channel, the Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, Lonely Planet, and a host of other outlets. Wiener maintains the world's largest archive of unique pizza boxes.