Chicago deep-dish pizza, or just "deep dish," as it's commonly known, has befuddled pizza purists for decades. Is it a pizza? Is it, as comedian Jon Stewart once quipped, "an [expletive] casserole?" ...

Though deep dish lovers may be guilty of what the Chicago food reporter Steve Dolinsky called Pizza I Grew Up Eating Syndrome — the bias toward the pie of one’s childhood — there does seem ...

Gaal's uncle, Bryan, was a bit more skeptical. "I told him last week, offhand, there's no way you can eat a deep dish pizza by yourself," Bryan said. "He took it a lot more seriously than I thought!" ...

Yeah, most locals eat both styles of pizza, but deep dish is more of a special occasion meal or something to eat when out-of-friend towns are visiting. But tavern-style is quintessential Chicago ...