The Story of My Life

You know that if there is a Chicago pizza place to be found, my husband will find it; and we did....in even in Vail, Colorado! The chef and owner of Vail’s LaTour , a five-star French restaurant, Chef Ferzacca decided to return to his Chicago pizza kitchen roots and open a "red sauce joint" in Vail. Before Ferzacca became a classically trained chef he worked in the steamy kitchens of Chicago’s most famous pizzerias. He worked tirelessly slicing mountains of pepperoni and tomatoes, preparing him to open his own pizza joint high in the mountains of Colorado. With ZaccaZa !, Paul is returning to his roots and his love of Chicago-style pizza. This Red Sauce Joint specializes in family-style pastas original Chicago style deep-dish pizza, authentic Napolitano thin crust pizza, steaks and seafood. ZaccaZa ! Only uses the finest meats, fresh cheeses and San Marzano tomatoes. ZaccaZa ’s deep dish and thin crust pies are unique, as the sauce is on top. This is not stylistic gimmi...

The birthday party post got me started thinking about the "Al's Pizza." My husband is a much better cook than me--not just pizza, but all things. (Let's just say that I can make anything...as long as it is on the computer. My kitchen skills are terrible, and have not improved in the 18 years we have been married.) But, he says he didn't marry me for my cooking! Thank goodness. So he is passing the gift of his culinary skills on to my children. The restaurant was a dream of my husband's....and he usually follows through with his ideas rather quickly....one of the things I love about him. Where most people just think about things for a long, long time....my husband does them in record speed. So, behold, he wanted to own his own pizza place. He cooked pizza for months, ordered samples shipped via FedEx in dry ice from his favorite Chicago places. We even visited Chicago to try it in person. It was all good to me, but he was perfecting the recipe. Finally he made ...