Pizza worth a schlep

[robert]

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the BBQ chicken pizza was actually created by the late and lamented Ed LaDou

True.

The origin of California pizza

On Viceland’s LA episode of The Pizza Show, I was pleased to see the founders of California Pizza Kitchen, Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax, give credit to Alice Waters for inventing California-style pizza (i.e., individual-sized with non-traditional toppings) at Chez Panisse Cafe in 1980 and to Ed LaDou for bringing it to wider attention at Spago before Rosenfeld and Flax hired him away, making it clear that Wolfgang Puck’s contributions were to knock off Waters’s business model and hire Ladou. T…