news.wwa.com wrote: > > As a Chicaaagoan and a pizza lover I claim that little of what is put over > as pizza here is really pizza. > > Most of it is just a crust with trash dumped on it or saturated with > rubbery goo masquerading as mozzarella. > > The thick crust/deep dish stuff I find inedible. Some thin crust creations > are decent but I hesitate to call them "pizza". "Chicago pizza" is an > oxymoron... almost as much as "California pizza". Even if it's good we > need to pick a different name for the dish. "Pizza" it's not. > > If you want REAL pizza try Celestino's in Naples (Italy) just a mile or so > from the entrance to the Pompeii ruins. Once you do you'll understand why > I'm so rabid on this subject. > > Then you should get to Providence RI and try a pie at Casterta Pizza on Federal Hill. Just ask people to direct you to "Caserta's" (in the Rhode Island tradition every store name becomes a possessive (e.g., my father likes the clothes at "Structure's")), but Caserta is actually a suburb of Naples, and the pizza, I suspect, is authentically Neopolitan. It is also incredibly good. Cheese is considered a topping, and you don't need it. Just get olives and mushrooms. Bob Wells
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