This thick, cheese-laden take on the Italian original has become a culinary icon — but who exactly invented it?
The deep-dish pizza was first served at Pizzeria Uno in 1943 - but the identity of its creator is a matter of debate.Deep dish pizza is synonymous with Chicago. A thick, bread-like base topped with layers of mozzarella and chunky tomato sauce is the perfect fortification, some might argue, against the notoriously long and cold Chicago winters.
Recipes for deep-dish pizza vary from restaurant to restaurant, with Italian sausage seemingly the most common topping in Chicago today.Riccardo named his restaurant Pizzeria Riccardo — but did he actually make the pizza? Possibly, but he was a businessman and an artist, not a cook.
Riccardo died in 1954 and Redmond and the Malnatis moved on to rival pizzerias, Gino’s East and Lou Malnati’s. Sewell, by this point the sole owner, changed the name to Pizzeria Uno. In 1977, he sold up to a Boston conglomerate, which simplified the origin story to give him all the credit. “ told me, ‘Ike Sewell is our Colonel Sanders’,” Regas says, referring to the KFC figurehead. “The idea that they are the original is the most important thing.
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