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After a six-week hiatus, the host returned to his kitchen, excited by its user-friendly layout despite the bittersweet farewell to a beloved gas oven. With a newly christened oven, the host chose to celebrate by making a pizza—a deep dish pizza, to be precise. For his experiment, he decided to look back at the deep dish's historical roots, spurred on by a recipe from the original Pizzeria Uno, the birthplace of the dish that opened in 1943.
Despite his past allegiance to traditional pizza crusts—the kind common around childhood establishments—last year's trip to Chicago had introduced him to the very depths of deep dish pizza.