There are two places that are my haunts.
My upstate of mind is always
about daydreaming about Harvest pizza,
where I've been sitting at the bar, at the bar.
The owner, Phil, used to let me sit there as a little girl.
He didn't give me cocktails or anything,
but he'd let me sit at the bar,
so I could watch the ball game
and eat my pizza at the same time,
since I was about 11 years old,
I love Harvest pizza.
In the summertime, I love to go to Ridge Terrace.
It's closed in the winter though,
so we couldn't share that with you,
but I love the Rios family and the Ridge Terrace.
That's fine dining.
That's the only place we go out in the summer,
if I'm not cooking.
And a place that I've known since,
wow, since we first moved here when I was seven or eight,
is Oscar's.
It's a family smokehouse, it goes back generations.
It's in Warrensburg, just a few minutes
from where I grew up on Lake George.
And I've talked about Oscar's on this show so many times,
it's kind of ridiculous.
They're my favorite bacon, smoked blue cheese,
smoked leg of lamb, anything you can think of, pub cheese.
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My name's Jamie Hobbs.
I am the manager of The Harvest Restaurant
located in Queensbury, New York.
We're a family-friendly restaurant.
We have a very extensive menu, mostly Italian-American.
We're known for our pizza.
We were established in 1972 and in July,
we'll be celebrating our 50th anniversary,
which is very exciting.
It's been owned by the same people for the entire time.
I've worked here for 25 years.
I love the people. We have a great clientele.
Rachael has actually been coming in
since before I started working here.
She used to come in with her family,
but she would come in and sit at the bar
and hang out with all of us.
We love having her here.
She always gets the same thing.
Spicy wings, tossed salad with our
world famous house dressing, and a Rachael Ray pizza.
That's a pizza that we named after her,
because she's been coming in for so long
and ordering the same thing for so long
that it seemed fitting that she
got her own pizza on the menu.
But we do make the sauce. We make the dough.
The dough is actually a secret family recipe.
I can't tell you what's in it,
but it's sweet and it's delicious.
Okay, let's make the Rachael Ray pizza.
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We don't have a crust on our pizza,
so the cheese and the toppings are all brought
right to the edge, so from the first bite to the last bite,
you're gonna get the same flavor.
We actually use a provolone cheese for all of our pizzas.
It's actually something that the owners
have done since the beginning,
when he first opened up this restaurant.
Some oregano, red onion, green peppers,
and that our very last topping is hot cherry peppers.
So the Rachael Ray pizza is one of our more popular pizzas.
People do come in and ask for that.
It takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
Oh yeah, that looks great.
Thanks for stopping by today. See you soon, Rach.
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My name is Jerry. I'm third-generation Oscar's.
My middle name is Oscar.
My grandkids' middle names are Oscar
and this is my establishment, along with my children
and my employees.
I'm Bob Moorhouse.
I've been at Oscar's for 14 years as the head processor.
I take care of all the production in the back,
hams, bacon, smoking cheese.
Our number one seller is our bacon, of course.
We produce 10 different kinds of bacon.
People buy not one or two pounds,
they always come in and buy 10 or 15 pounds.
And then of course, our cheeses, our smoked cheeses.
Everything we have here, people love.
Okay, let's smoke some bacon.
This is salt, honey buds, cure and sugar.
Turn it over.
Do the same thing in the back.
This is gonna penetrate over the seven days.
This is the way they've cured
for hundreds and hundreds of years.
This is the old-fashioned way
and we've been doing it for 75 years
and we're not gonna change it.
I can't say enough about Rachael and John.
I just can't. I mean, they're the nicest people.
When they come in the store, if people recognize them,
they speak to the people and everything else
and they come in a lot.
She was in one Father's Day and I was working on the counter
and she had to hug me, never forget it.
Her favorite things are our smoked blue cheese,
our bacon, smoked leg of lamb is very popular with her,
because nobody smokes lamb but Oscars, I think.
But if you're ever in the area, Lake George area,
beautiful area, you guys come up and see us
and Rachael, I'll be seeing you soon.