| Pizza means many different things to many different | | | | You can add anything you please to a deep dish |
| people. Some think of it as their favorite meal, others | | | | pizza but traditionally it's the Sausage that brings it |
| just a quick bite to eat. Still others think of pizza as | | | | home. I love it with peperoni, mushroom but sausage |
| their savior when they don't want to cook. There are | | | | is brings a very different taste to the whole meal. It |
| many definitions of pizza but the best in my opinion is | | | | is much the same as New York style pizza but deep |
| a baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow | | | | dish pizza has all the topping inside the pizza crust |
| bread-like crust covered with seasoned tomato | | | | instead of on top. You also need a fork to eat it |
| sauce, cheese, and often other toppings such as | | | | because it's so thick with ingredients. As a New |
| sausage or olive. | | | | Yorker I grew up being able to pick up my slice and |
| The word pizza is believed to be from an Old Italian | | | | just walk away. Can't really do that with the Chicago |
| word meaning "a point," which in turn became the | | | | stuff! But to be fair it is nice to sit and eat with a |
| Italian word "pizzicare," which means "to pinch" or | | | | fork a knife once in a while and feel really full after |
| "pluck." It has been said that a man named Genarro | | | | two slices. |
| Lombardi started the first pizzeria that opened in | | | | From this long history you can surely see that pizza |
| New York City back in 1905. He sold strictly pizza for | | | | has been around for a while but they are still making |
| over 20 years and then started selling spaghetti and | | | | changes and perfecting pizza in all parts of the |
| other Italian dishes as well in 1930. New York style | | | | country. Its hard to imagine but yes there are over |
| pizza is said to be the best pizza around. You can | | | | 21 styles of pizza. Pizza will always be one of |
| choose from many different toppings and the sauce | | | | Americans favorite traditions, and regardless of |
| is the best I have ever had. Many places try to copy | | | | whether you like thin New York Style or the Chicago |
| the New York pie but there is just no pizza like New | | | | way of doing it we as Americans will be eating and |
| York pizza. They say its the water but I do not buy | | | | loving this product for years to come. In my opinion |
| into that because I have had great New York pizza in | | | | just get in the car and sit down at your local pizza |
| Las Vegas of all places. | | | | guy's shop and eat both. Do not worry so much |
| In contrast, pizza in Chicago started in 1943 and is a | | | | about the other styles make sure you do not leave |
| totally different animal. Chicago is famous for their | | | | the earth without trying the great New York slice |
| deep dish pizza. Anyone who has been to Chicago | | | | and the Chicago deep dish my two favorite pies! |
| knows that deep dish pizza is amazing!!! A must try!! | | | | |