Originally Posted by
readywhenyouare
Going against the grain I made a Chicago style deep dish pizza last night that was very good. I've had a couple of friends from New York who would hardly speak to me when I told them I really liked Chicago style pizza.
It's meat and cheese and crust so I have no objection to it
. But it's not "pizza" to me. It's more like what my mother would call "pizza rustica". Her version was basically any odds and ends of meat (ham, salami, sopresatta) and cheese in a crust then baked like a pie. In no way to be mistaken for Chicago style deep dish nor even "pizza" but still yummy.