The crust is thin and soft, topped with tomato sauce and cheese. Other popular toppings include sausage, mushrooms, peppers and onions, but pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping in the entire country. If you get pepperoni on your pizza in Chicago, though, you will need a knife and fork. The best Chicago-style pizza is called deep dish because it is made in a deeper pan with more toppings than the New York version.
In the s, a couple of Chicago entrepreneurs developed the recipe with a few variants:. California really turned pizza on its head, though, by bringing it into the epicenter of the organic food movement.
Californians placed an emphasis on vegetables to attract the attention of trendy vegetarians. In California, pizza also went high-end. In the s Spago, one of the first chef-owned restaurants, featured a pizza topped with caviar as one of its signature dishes. Veggie pizza also has its origins in California. Though sfincione was the inspiration for Sicilian pizza in New York, the crust is where the similarities end. Sfincione has a small amount of hard cheese sprinkled on top, but Sicilian pie in the United States features thick layers of both tomato sauce and melty mozzarella.
With an oiled base and pan baking method, this dish has many similarities to a Chicago deep-dish pie — except Sicilian pizza in New York is baked in a rectangular pan and cut into squares.
Depending on where you get New York Sicilian-style pie, the cheese may be shredded and put on top of the sauce or sliced and put under it. For a uniquely American melting pot of flavors, head down to Tampa for scachatta. This Floridian city is the only place in the country you can get the Cuban-Sicilian-American pie. While it shares many similarities with tomato pies found in the Northeast, the Cuban influence in Florida can be tasted in the additions of corn or cassava flour in the thick crust.
Additionally, many places use a rich, egg-based dough. The Cuban influence means the sauce has extra spices and ground beef cooked into it. No other tomato pie incorporates meat into the sauce, making scachatta a unique dish. Like tomato pies, scachatta is often cut into squares. The pie is meant to be eaten at room temperature, like other pastries. Detroit-style pizza starts with a thick crust baked in a rectangular pan. This makes the pizza less oily on the bottom, but not less flavorful. The order of ingredients when building the pie also sets Detroit-style pizza apart.
The dough lines the bottom of the pan, followed by pepperoni. Then brick cheese, a unique blend from the Great Lakes region, goes over the top of the pepperoni. This cheese is mixed with cheddar and mozzarella. Like New York-style Sicilian-style pies, tomato pies in the United States got their inspiration from sfincione. The crust is the same fluffy focaccia-type crust found in sfincione recipes, but unlike the Italian dish, the sauce is the most important part of a tomato pie.
In Philadelphia and other parts of the northeastern United States that make tomato pies, the sauce is often called tomato gravy. The crust is baked in a rectangular pan in a brick oven at a low heat.
After cooking, the only cheese used on the Philadelphia version of tomato pie is a sprinkling of Romano or Parmesan. Tomato pies are cut into squares for serving at room temperature or while still hot. Other parts of the Northeast, like New Jersey, combine the concepts of tomato pie with Neapolitan pizza. Unlike Philadelphia tomato pies, New Jersey ones are baked in a round pan.
New Jersey-style pies also use more toppings and cheese compared to the Philadelphia version. The amount of toppings and cheese is the subject of the rivalry between the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and their respective pies. Rhode Island has its own version of tomato pie, too. While some tomato pies are served warm, pizza strips are served cold. Their bite-sized shape makes these strips the ideal food for birthdays and other gatherings.
People often have preferences for pieces cut from the middle or from the edges, but the debate of middle or edge can only be settled on a personal level.
If you get the chance to try pizza strips, enjoy them from both places to decide whether you are a middle or an edge lover. New England Greek-style pie refers to a hand-stretched, no-knead dough that is baked in a well-oiled pan. The crust has a texture like focaccia, except the bottom is crunchy. The toppings include copious amounts of rich, cooked tomato sauce spiked with oregano.
Unlike other tomato sauces, the one used for Greek pies uses the tangy, concentrated flavor of tomato paste instead of tomato sauce. After saucing the dough, the cook sprinkles on equal parts of mozzarella and white cheddar. Occasionally, workers at houses of pizza — as Greek immigrants named their pizzerias — add provolone into the cheese mix. Most pizza shops stop at this stage, refusing to add any other toppings. While you have the options of meat and vegetable toppings, the heavy layers of cheese and sauce may overpower them.
If you crave a New England Greek pie, head to a pizza house. Greek pizza houses are scattered throughout New York and New England, where the immigrants from Greece settled and took over the pizzerias of retiring Italian-Americans. Owning a pizza house was such a popular profession for immigrants that 76 percent of Greek-Americans in Connecticut participated in a pizza business.
While hard-working immigrants from many countries were settling in America and developing its eclectic cuisine, pizza was making its way around the world. In some instances, it is hard to say if the Italian version came along and was then altered according to local flavors or if pizza was simultaneously invented in different parts of the world as a basic part of the indigenous cuisine.
In every culture, pizza began as a basic, inexpensive way of feeding a family. It can be made with just a few ingredients and customized to accommodate availability of local foods. One thing is sure, if you sample the pizza from different locations around the world, you will taste a variety of flavors. As one might expect, these different styles of pizza reflect the national taste and culture. What we consider traditional pizza in America is from Naples — a thin, soft crust with tomato sauce, basil and cheese.
The pizza is round and cut into wedges, sometimes referred to as pizza pie. Rome: Another version of Italian pizza originated in Rome. There are a couple different versions of this, but none of them include tomato sauce. Pizza bianca is made with a thin crust, sometimes almost cracker-thin and crispy.
The crust is topped with olive oil, garlic and cheese. Other toppings such as sliced olives, anchovies and fresh herbs like parsley and basil are sometimes added.
Another variation of pizza bianca starts by spreading ricotta on the crust and then adding other ingredients on top. When you crave a deep dish pie in Sicily, head toward a bakery called a panificio. Sfincione has always been a way to use cheap ingredients to make a tasty meal, so hard, long-lasting grating cheeses became the norm.
The sauce used is not a standard sauce found in the United States. Some even had tomatoes on top. Only recently introduced from the Americas, these were still a curiosity, looked down upon by contemporary gourmets. But it was their unpopularity — and hence their low price — that made them attractive.
For a long time, pizzas were scorned by food writers. When the first cookbooks appeared in the late 19th century, they pointedly ignored pizza. All that changed after Italian unification. While on a visit to Naples in , King Umberto I and Queen Margherita grew tired of the complicated French dishes they were served for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Hastily summoned to prepare some local specialities for the queen, the pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito cooked three sorts of pizza: one with lard, caciocavallo and basil; another with cecenielli ; and a third with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. The queen was delighted. Her favourite — the last of the three — was christened pizza margherita in her honour.
This signalled an important shift. It introduced the notion that pizza was a genuinely Italian food — akin to pasta and polenta. Nevertheless, pizza was slow to move out of Naples.
The initial spur was provided by migration. From the s onwards, a growing number of Neapolitans moved northwards in search of work, taking their cuisine with them. This trend was accelerated by war. When Allied soldiers invaded Italy in , they were so taken with the pizza they encountered in Campania that they asked for it wherever else they went.
As tourists became increasingly curious about Italian food, restaurants throughout the peninsula started offering more regional specialities — including pizza. GREAT website!!! You're welcome and thank YOU, Dora! Korey Jun 22, Thank for having a great wonder. My favorite pizza place is imo's pizza I love that place. Jun 23, Thank you for commenting. Hanna Spanos Jun 22, You're very welcome, Hanna! We love pizza too! Visit again soon please! You are welcome, donovan!
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My favorite is from Fortel's Pizza Den, a local pizzeria started in the mid '80s. They have a few franchises around St. Louis but the original one is here in our school district boundaries of Affton. Their pepperoni is my favorite! Crunchy crust, not too thin but not think, lots of sauce, and mixture of mozzarella and provel cheese. Louis is one of the only places that puts provel on their pizzas.
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