mercredi 11 septembre 2013

Enjoy The Taste Of The Windy City By Getting Your Chicago Deep Dish Pizza Mail Order

By Lila Berger


Few people can say that they weren't completely hooked after the first time they had pizza. The combination of bread-like crust, tomato-based sauce, toppings and lots of melted cheese is enough to make anyone forget about their good dietary intentions. The Windy City gave the world one of the most delicious varieties and now you don't have to travel there to enjoy it. You can simply get your Chicago deep dish pizza mail order.

Mediterranean people have been eating dishes similar to pizza for thousands of years. For instance, in ancient Greece there was a popular flatbread topped with cheese and herbs. The Romans had something similar but added some honey too. The addition of tomatoes came much later, in the 18th century in the poor neighborhoods of Naples.

An authentic Neapolitan-style pie has a very thin crust, no more than an eighth of an inch thick. Tomato, mozzarella cheese and olive oil are the main toppings and basil or garlic and oregano are often added. The assembled dish is baked in a very hot, wood-fired stone oven.

Naples was one of the cities from which Italians emigrated to the United States and these new Americans brought their recipes with them. In 1905, America saw its first pizzeria, which opened in New York, in the neighborhood known as Little Italy. Chicago had a huge population of Italian origin too and in 1943, a pizzeria in the Windy City stepped things up a notch by inventing the deep dish pizza.

The deep dish style is more like a pie and is in fact baked in a pan similar to the ones used for baking pies. The dough lines the bottom and sides of the pan in a thin layer. The sides can be quite high, often up to about three inches.

The tomato-based sauce, cheese and toppings are added to form a thick, delicious filling for the crust. They're added in reverse order, with the cheese first, then the toppings like pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, onions or bell peppers and lastly the sauce. This is to prevent the cheese from burning while the pie is in the oven, since it requires a longer baking time than the original Neapolitan version.

If you find yourself craving a proper Chicago-style pie but live elsewhere in the country, you don't have to despair. Many pizzerias in the city now deliver their fare by mail order. Since they obviously can't send a freshly-baked dish through the postal system, they freeze the partially baked pie and send it in this state. A day or so later you'll receive it and then you only need to pop it into the oven according to the instructions on the packaging. Within minutes you'll be able to savor the delicious taste.

All you need to do to get your Chicago deep dish pizza mail order delivery is to go online and check out the menus of the different pizzerias that offer the service. Then make your choice, place your order and try to control yourself while you wait for it to arrive. Maybe you can use the waiting period to stock up on a bottle or two of good red wine to round off the perfect meal.




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