One of New Jersey’s top pizzerias has just launched a series of pies inspired by… pregnancy cravings.
Talula’s in Asbury Park recently announced the start of its pregnancy cravings pizza collab series, which highlights pregnant women and their peculiar culinary desires.
“We were going into our low season which gives us a little bit of breath to do cool things that we want to do,” Talula’s owner Shanti Mignogna told NJ.com. “So we started thinking what kind of collabs we want to do and we thought about pregnancy cravings. I’m a mom of two, I have many mom friends, and it’s just kind of one of those things where pregnant women often come up with very bold cravings.”
Mignogna reached out to New Jersey-based artist Adrianne Vizzone, an expectant mother, to collaborate.
“Earlier this year, I started sharing the story of my IVF (in vitro fertilization) journey, and Shanti, reached out to me because she shared the same experience,” Vizzone said. “We kind of bonded over this different path to motherhood.”
Vizzone’s “Garbage Mouth” pie launched on Thursday and will be available until Sunday.
The pizza is not only inspired by Vizzone’s pregnancy cravings but also an homage to her late father. It features smoky scamorza cheese, sliced lemon, hot and sweet vinegar peppers, mortadella, fresh basil and a hot Calabrian drizzle on a sesame crust.
“This pizza is something my husband and I actually make every year on my deceased dad’s birthday to celebrate and honor him,” Vizzone said. “My dad really loved lemon and cheese. When it came time to come up with my cravings it made total sense, because two of my cravings were just cheese and anything sour, like lemon.”
Mignogna is excited for future collabs in this series, which will promote awareness to IVF, postpartum, fertility and other women’s health matters.
“There’s just so many different ways to get pregnant and there’s so many different hardships that people experience with pregnancy or postpartum,” Mignogna said. “Just giving it a platform and just having fun with it, can hopefully encourage women to maybe open up and talk to someone or have a conversation about these kind of things.”

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