15/02/2024
walkchicagotours.om...A SLICE OF CHICAGO PIZZA HISTORY...City hall says there are 1,923 dedicated pizza restaurants in Chicago. Gino's East, at 162 E. Superior St., established in 1966, is one of the city's most popular pizza palaces. Gino's was founded by taxi drivers, Fred Bartoli and Sam Levine along with friend, Sicilian-born, George Loverde. It was the unique dough recipe that separated Gino's pizza from the others. The unique crust was the creation of kitchen manager, Alice Mae Redmond, a very talented African-American pizza chef who invented a secret "dough conditioner" which separated Gino's deep dish from that of all its competitors.. Some say Alice Mae Redmond invented the deep dish pizza. But truly, no one really knows who did. Alice Mae left our world in 2009. Viva Gino's East !...and God bless Alice Mae Redmond... wherever she is.
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