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About Ed LaDou
- Ed LaDou (October 9, 1955 – December 27, 2007) was an American pizza chef, who is credited with popularizing gourmet California-style pizzas.
- Ed LaDou was the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in L.A.
- He also developed the first menu for the California Pizza Kitchen.The invention of the California-style pizza begins with a Berkeley, California, pizza restaurant, Chez Panisse, and its owner, Alice Waters.
- Waters was the first to create pizzas with exotic and unusual toppings which were cooked in a wood-burning pizza oven.
- However, LaDou was a major figure in the development and popularity of these types of pizzas.LaDou was known for introducing very unusual ingredients into his pizza recipes at a time when such toppings were highly unorthodox.
- Examples include duck breast and hoisin sauce pizza and barbecue chicken pizza.
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