Chicago the "Pizza Capital" of the World?

[ThomasJay]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

A nice simple pizza that I make on my grill:
Pesto sauce, smoked mozzarella and mushrooms (I prefer morel but you can use whatever ones you want).

That just actually made my mouth water. I don't know if I'll be able to find the morels might have to sub porcinis, but its on the menu list for the next shopping trips

[Will_L]

ORIGINAL: ThomasJay

ORIGINAL: Will_L

A nice simple pizza that I make on my grill:
Pesto sauce, smoked mozzarella and mushrooms (I prefer morel but you can use whatever ones you want).

That just actually made my mouth water. I don't know if I'll be able to find the morels might have to sub porcinis, but its on the menu list for the next shopping trips

Porcini's would be great. I use morels because I get them for free from a friend, they grow around an old tree trunk in his yard and he hates shrooms so he calls me when they pop up [:)] Hope you enjoy it!

[Erik Rutins]

Pizza is a weakness of mine. I grew up eating NY-style pizza and that style made in a wood-fired brick oven is pretty much my favorite, though I have tried and liked Chicago-style as well - but it is quite different. In New England a lot of pizza places are more what we call Greek style, which is pretty good but I still prefer the NY style overall comparatively. A good pizza Margherita is fantastic if the mozzarella and sauce are good and there's an italian restaurant not far from us that makes a great one. One of our other local places does one with mozzarella, smoked gouda, caramelized onions and applewood smoked bacon which all work together very well.

[RangerJoe]

I can remember the date and time when I ate my best pizza. [8D] I mention that pizza one of my brothers and he said "That was a good pizza."

My step-grandfather liked pizza but not the name because it reminded him of a Polish word . . . [X(]

[goodwoodrw]

Nothing beats a home made pizza from the bottom up. making your own dough is the key. Toongabbie special [:D]

[berto]

"Chicago pizza". What's that? There is a wide variety of pizzas here, deep dish and thin crust. If you have visited here and sampled just one or two "Chicago pizzas", you don't know the half of it, much less ...

About Chicago being "pizza capital of the world": Not asserting anything about quality, that claim was originally based on Chicago having, supposedly, the greatest number of "pizza parlors [restaurants]" per capita in all the world. I wouldn't know for sure, but I tend to discount all such hyperbolic local boosterism.

I admit to liking "Chicago style" "deep dish" pizza very much. My favorite is Giordano's (based on a genuine regional Italian recipe), but from time to time I hanker for deep dish pizza from Gino's; or Pizzeria Uno, or just down the street, from Pizzeria Due; or Pizano's; or (before they took a deep dive in quality) from Gepetto's; or Lou Malnati's ... (The list goes on and on.) Each of them distinctively different.

[RangerJoe]

Inside Naples’ World-Famous Pizza Culture
For hundreds of years, artisans in the southern Italian city have been cooking up the ultimate fast food

(with pictures . . . [:'(])

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The citizenry of Naples lives close by a volcano that’s both a memento mori and an index of the human condition. In a city with a predilection for light and shade, optimism coexists with the sober reality of death. During this era of Covid, when time can seem suspended, perhaps no Neapolitan custom is as poignant as the “pizza sospesa” (the suspended pizza), a form of generosity that involves eating one pie and paying for two, leaving the other for a less fortunate stranger. “No one should be denied a pizza,” Oliva says. “It’s the food of solidarity.”The citizenry of Naples lives close by a volcano that’s both a memento mori and an index of the human condition. In a city with a predilection for light and shade, optimism coexists with the sober reality of death. During this era of Covid, when time can seem suspended, perhaps no Neapolitan custom is as poignant as the “pizza sospesa” (the suspended pizza), a form of generosity that involves eating one pie and paying for two, leaving the other for a less fortunate stranger. “No one should be denied a pizza,” Oliva says. “It’s the food of solidarity.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/n ... 180976992/