RegForte > wrote:

>Actually, the "new age" pizza thing was part of the California
>Cuisine movement. You can thank Wolfgang Puck for that.

>Like you said, Alice Waters was part of it, but she didn't invent it.
>Her main focus was using locally produced and grown products in innovative
>ways, but there's more it than that.

I'm not sure you can credit Puck with California-style pizzas.
I do not think he did pizzas until Spago opened in the early
80's, and Chez Panisse was already specializing in pizzas for
many years before that.

Speaking of which there's a new pizza contended in San Francisco
called "Flour and Water", but I have not been there yet.

Steve