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About the Recipes: Classic Italian pizzas, created in Naples, are known for their thin crusts, simple ingredients, like a small amount of tomato sauce, cheese, and are baked in wood-fired ovens. If any meat is added, it would be ham or prosciutto. At times, they are topped with only olive oil and some cheese. Usually, their pizzas are light and crispy.
American pizza is completely different, adding more tomato sauce, lots of cheese, and are loaded with a variety of meat or other add-in veggies. Many times, the crust is thick or stuffed, which results in a denser pizza. America’s pizza is like its culture, a melting pot of flavors, sizes, and textures.
How Pizza Becomes an American Classic
In 1800s and early 1900s, Italian immigrants reached the shores of the USA seeking a better life. In 1943, Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo opened Pizzeria Uno in Chicago and served a new variety of pizza, a deep-dish variety with inverted layers of cheese, meat, tomatoes, and a crunchy crust.
It was cheesy and gooey.
At about that same time, immigrants from Italy arrived in New York City and Gennaro Lombardi opened America’s first pizzeria, serving a large, wide pizza pie with a thin crust reflecting the classic Neapolitan style pizza. When you sliced this crispy crusted pizza, you could fold it making munching and crunching that pizza easy. Some people say that New York water helps makes that happen. It was topped with mozzarella, seasoned tomato sauce, tomatoes, Italian seasoning, and a touch of crushed red pepper. Veggies or sausages and sprinkled seasonings were scattered over the cheese. thick or thin, we love them all.
Enjoy the Story Score with A Real “Home Run” Recipe
While Chicago is known for its museums, sculptures, parks, and sports’ teams, it is also famous for its deep-dish pizza and Chicago-style hot dogs.
This year the Chicago History Museum sponsored a Chicago Hot Dog Fest for a weekend in Lincoln Park. I was excited to be at the Fest interviewing several of their guest speakers, who would be revealing some hidden facts about the history of the hot dog. It was fun to celebrate the season at the Fest, surrounded with magical music of award-winning bands, loads of games, inflatables, activities, and with various regional and ethnic hot dog styles by the city’s top hot dog vendors.
I turned to my husband Tom and said, “There is nothing better or more fun than having your hand wrapped around a Chicago Hot Dog.”
He laughed, “unless there is pizza in the other hand.
My eyes widened as I just stared at him. “That’s a great idea!” At that moment, “Chicago Hot Dog Pizza” was born.
Returning home, I was anxious to try it out and bought a frozen “Home Run Inn” Cheese pizza. I wanted to use their pizza because I knew that Mary and Vincent Grittani, the owners of Home Run Inn in Chicago always supported and welcomed the youth on Chicago’s South Side. Now, I added raw onions and Vienna all-beef franks’ slices, and brushed some poppyseeds on the crust edges. It sizzled in the oven, looking so delicious. Taking it from the oven, it was time to “drag it through the garden: as they say in Chicago. Greener than green relish, more onions, sliced dill pickle spears, sliced tomato wedges, sport peppers for heat, a drizzle of yellow mustard, and of course, a sprinkle of celery salt. Now, it was ready for testing. You couldn’t miss with this pizza, two of Chicago’s best foods, pizza and hot dogs created a fantastic world of flavor. Melting cheese dotted with seven condiments created a real mouth-watering party. We hit a Home Run with this combination. Revealing it on our website, it looks like lots of people agreed with us, about 25,050 views. Check it out!
https://www.gloriagoodtaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Chicago-Style-Home-Run-Hot-Dog-Pizza.pdf
Now You Know the Rest of the Story
Make Your Own Authentic New York Pizza: See
https://www.tasteatlas.com/new-york-style-pizza/recipe
Make Your Own Authentic Chicago Deep Dish Pizza: See
https://www.tasteatlas.com/chicago-pizza/recipe
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