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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Style of single-serving pizza</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"California pizza" redirects here. Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Pizza_California" title="Pizza California">Pizza California</a> or <a href="/wiki/California_Pizza_Kitchen" title="California Pizza Kitchen">California Pizza Kitchen</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox hrecipe adr"><caption class="infobox-title fn"><span>California-style pizza</span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:California_club_pizza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/California_club_pizza.jpg/220px-California_club_pizza.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/California_club_pizza.jpg/330px-California_club_pizza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/California_club_pizza.jpg/440px-California_club_pizza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding-bottom:0.25em;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">A California Club pizza</div></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alternative names</th><td class="infobox-data">California pizza</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pizza" title="Pizza">Pizza</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Place of origin</th><td class="infobox-data country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Region or state</th><td class="infobox-data region"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data author"><a href="/wiki/Ed_LaDou" title="Ed LaDou">Ed LaDou</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alice_Waters" title="Alice Waters">Alice Waters</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.15em; padding-right:0.65em;">Main ingredients</th><td class="infobox-data ingredient">Pizza dough, <a href="/wiki/Cheese" title="Cheese">cheese</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>California-style pizza</b> (also known as <b>California pizza</b>) is a style of <a href="/wiki/Pizza" title="Pizza">pizza</a> that combines <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> thin <a href="/wiki/Pizza_crust" class="mw-redirect" title="Pizza crust">crust</a> with toppings from the <a href="/wiki/California_cuisine" title="California cuisine">California cuisine</a> cooking style. Its invention is generally attributed to chef <a href="/wiki/Ed_LaDou" title="Ed LaDou">Ed LaDou</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chez_Panisse" title="Chez Panisse">Chez Panisse</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley, California</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Puck" title="Wolfgang Puck">Wolfgang Puck</a>, after meeting LaDou, popularized the style of pizza in the rest of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is served in many California cuisine restaurants. <a href="/wiki/California_Pizza_Kitchen" title="California Pizza Kitchen">California Pizza Kitchen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Round_Table_Pizza" title="Round Table Pizza">Round Table Pizza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Extreme_Pizza" title="Extreme Pizza">Extreme Pizza</a>, and Sammy's Woodfired Pizza<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are four major pizza franchises associated with California-style pizza. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=California-style_pizza&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The California-style pizza was invented more or less simultaneously in 1980 by <a href="/wiki/Ed_LaDou" title="Ed LaDou">Ed LaDou</a> (the "Prince of Pizza"), then working as a pizza chef for Spectrum Foods' Prego Restaurant in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Cow_Hollow,_San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Cow Hollow, San Francisco, California">Cow Hollow</a> neighborhood,<sup id="cite_ref-nations_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nations-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by pizza chefs working for <a href="/wiki/Alice_Waters" title="Alice Waters">Alice Waters</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Chez_Panisse" title="Chez Panisse">Chez Panisse</a> Cafe in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-smackdown_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smackdown-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>LaDou had learned pizza-making in the 1970s as a teenager at Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too, a traditional New York–style pizzeria in <a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_California" title="Mountain View, California">Mountain View, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guru_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guru-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He made pizzas briefly at Ecco, an upscale restaurant at the <a href="/wiki/Hyatt" title="Hyatt">Hyatt Hotel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto, California</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-who_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before starting at Prego. </p><p>Although Prego specialized in classic, Italian-style thin-crust pizzas, its chefs encouraged LaDou to experiment with <a href="/wiki/Prosciutto" title="Prosciutto">prosciutto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goat_cheese" title="Goat cheese">goat cheese</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Truffles" class="mw-redirect" title="Truffles">truffles</a> in their <a href="/wiki/Wood_fuel" title="Wood fuel">wood-burning</a> oven, and send his results to guests.<sup id="cite_ref-guru_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guru-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-who_6-1" class="reference"><a 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Chez_Panisse_pizza.jpg/440px-Chez_Panisse_pizza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="375" /></a><figcaption>Pizza topped with an egg from the Chez Panisse cafe</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1980, Alice Waters' Chez Panisse and its head chef, <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Tower" title="Jeremiah Tower">Jeremiah Tower</a>, had already invented <a href="/wiki/California_cuisine" title="California cuisine">California cuisine</a>, a combination of <a href="/wiki/French_cuisine" title="French cuisine">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italian_cuisine" title="Italian cuisine">Italian</a> techniques and presentation with fresh local ingredient-focused flavors. Waters was a long-time fan of Tommaso's Italian restaurant in San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/North_Beach,_San_Francisco" title="North Beach, San Francisco">North Beach</a>, which had installed the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a>'s first wood-fired pizza oven when it opened in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After traveling to Italy, Waters decided to make an open <a href="/wiki/Kitchen" title="Kitchen">kitchen</a> featuring a Tommaso's-style pizza oven the focus of the new cafe she was opening above her main dining room. Although prepared classically, her chefs added exotic fine ingredients to their single-serving pizzas and <a href="/wiki/Calzone" title="Calzone">calzones</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Goat_cheese" title="Goat cheese">goat cheese</a> and duck sausage.<sup id="cite_ref-smackdown_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smackdown-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her cafe, and its pizzas, in particular, were an instant success, attracting wide attention among food critics.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wolfgang Puck, in 1980 and 1981, was preparing to open the restaurant that would make him famous, <a href="/wiki/Spago" title="Spago">Spago</a>, in <a href="/wiki/West_Hollywood,_California" title="West Hollywood, California">West Hollywood, California</a>. Initially conceived as a <a href="/wiki/Pizzeria" title="Pizzeria">pizzeria</a>, Spago's was modeled after the upstairs cafe at Chez Panisse.<sup id="cite_ref-smackdown_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smackdown-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was so impressed with the pizza LaDou had made for him at Prego, he hired LaDou as head pizza chef. Under Puck's guidance, LaDou developed more than 250 pizza concepts using ingredients such as scallops, <a href="/wiki/Roe" title="Roe">roe</a>, and baby <a href="/wiki/Squash_blossom" title="Squash blossom">zucchini flowers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-who_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among their most famous invention was "Jewish pizza", a pizza dough first cooked then topped with <a href="/wiki/Smoked_salmon" title="Smoked salmon">smoked salmon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_fra%C3%AEche" title="Crème fraîche">crème fraîche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caper" title="Caper">capers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dill" title="Dill">dill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another innovation was using infused <a href="/wiki/Olive_oil" title="Olive oil">olive oil</a>, baby vegetables, <a href="/wiki/Chili_oil" title="Chili oil">chili oil</a>, and flavored dough.<sup id="cite_ref-guru_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guru-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:California_pizza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/California_pizza.jpg/220px-California_pizza.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/California_pizza.jpg/330px-California_pizza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/California_pizza.jpg/440px-California_pizza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="758" data-file-height="568" /></a><figcaption>California-style pizza with greens, egg, bacon, and garden vegetables</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1985, LaDou helped two inexperienced lawyer-restaurateurs, Richard L. Rosenfeld and Larry S. Flax, start a new restaurant concept, <a href="/wiki/California_Pizza_Kitchen" title="California Pizza Kitchen">California Pizza Kitchen</a> (also known as "CPK"). He brought them many of Spago's recipes, which he had carefully saved.<sup id="cite_ref-who_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new restaurant borrowed the concept of open kitchens centered around wood-burning pizza ovens from Spago, but instead of exotic gourmet ingredients, it used innovative but simpler <a href="/wiki/Comfort_food" title="Comfort food">comfort food</a> toppings.<sup id="cite_ref-who_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-who-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the new restaurant's chef quit less than a month before opening, LaDou quickly designed and cooked an entire menu, inventing barbecue chicken pizza on the spot.<sup id="cite_ref-guru_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guru-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> LaDou also helped develop pizza menus for Sammy's Woodfired Pizza and the <a href="/wiki/Hard_Rock_Cafe" title="Hard Rock Cafe">Hard Rock Cafe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guru_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guru-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prominence">Prominence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=California-style_pizza&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Prominence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Both Wolfgang Puck and California Pizza Kitchen were instrumental in turning California-style pizza from a <a href="/wiki/Gourmet" title="Gourmet">gourmet</a> food trend to a mass consumer food product. Based on the success of his pizzas and his status as a <a href="/wiki/Celebrity_chef" title="Celebrity chef">celebrity chef</a>, Puck opened a series of restaurants, ranging from high-end clones of Spago to convenience chains for airports and mall <a href="/wiki/Food_court" title="Food court">food courts</a>. California Pizza Kitchen grew to 200 outlets. </p><p>Both introduced frozen pizzas, but after an early success Puck's supermarket lines were overtaken by CPK's, which are backed by <a href="/wiki/Kraft_Foods" title="Kraft Foods">Kraft foods</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=California-style_pizza&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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