Pizza is iconic. It conjures memories of childhood and Friday nights with friends and family. From cheese-crusted Detroit-style squares and meaty Chicago deep dishes to rustic wood-fired Neapolitan pies and veggie slices with plant-based cheese, pizza is a portal to people, places and time.
“We get very tribal and emotional about pizza,” says Peter Regas, author of a forthcoming book about American pizza history. “There’s only a few dishes in America that people will get actually mad — passionately mad — about. Pizza is one of them. ... [It is] deeply embedded in American culture.”
