That's ridiculous. Of all the pizza on the North American continent, Wolfgang Puck probably has the closest thing to the original.
Which is not to say that I personally like it, but that's really beside the point. I can only conclude that you haven't had decent Chicago-style pizza (the Uno's chain SUCKS).
"New York pizza" is merely a label, though, for a style that one can find well-executed over much of the eastern US, including Chicago (http://fandango.evite.com/pages/venue/venueDetails.jsp?venueID=NTDEQNBMXYZXCVYQDTMB). Hell, you can get great pizza - by the slice - in Nashville, if you know where to go (http://fandango.evite.com/pages/venue/venueDetails.jsp?venueID=NTDEQNBMXYZXCVYQDTMB), and there are also other worthy regional pizza styles. Seattle has several pizzerias which serve pizzas so topping-laden that they're roughly the shape of the upper third of a basketball, probably the best-known of which is Northlake Tavern (http://northlaketavern.com/menu2.html). (The crust of Seattle pizza is a little on the stiff side, but it's still good.)
I can inconsolably pronounce with certainty, though, that you can't get decent pizza in Athens, Alabama. Boo hoo. (There are one or two places in Huntsville that don't totally suck, but 25 miles is a long way to drive for mediocre pizza.) And, given a decent recipe, you can bake a perfectly good Chicago pizza at home, whereas I can't fit a Blodgett oven in my kitchen.
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Date: 2006-08-16 03:38 pm (UTC)Which is not to say that I personally like it, but that's really beside the point. I can only conclude that you haven't had decent Chicago-style pizza (the Uno's chain SUCKS).
"New York pizza" is merely a label, though, for a style that one can find well-executed over much of the eastern US, including Chicago (http://fandango.evite.com/pages/venue/venueDetails.jsp?venueID=NTDEQNBMXYZXCVYQDTMB). Hell, you can get great pizza - by the slice - in Nashville, if you know where to go (http://fandango.evite.com/pages/venue/venueDetails.jsp?venueID=NTDEQNBMXYZXCVYQDTMB), and there are also other worthy regional pizza styles. Seattle has several pizzerias which serve pizzas so topping-laden that they're roughly the shape of the upper third of a basketball, probably the best-known of which is Northlake Tavern (http://northlaketavern.com/menu2.html). (The crust of Seattle pizza is a little on the stiff side, but it's still good.)
I can inconsolably pronounce with certainty, though, that you can't get decent pizza in Athens, Alabama. Boo hoo. (There are one or two places in Huntsville that don't totally suck, but 25 miles is a long way to drive for mediocre pizza.) And, given a decent recipe, you can bake a perfectly good Chicago pizza at home, whereas I can't fit a Blodgett oven in my kitchen.