"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
Alice Water's pizza preceded Wolfgang Puck's. When Alice started Chez
Panisse and her pizza, Wolfgang was a chef at Ma Maison.

Ed