Southern California’s Quiet Pizza Revolution
Tomas K - Moderator 
In 1985, Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax capitalized on the growing popularity of “California pizza” when they opened their Beverly Hills restaurant California Pizza Kitchen. They hired chef Ed LaDou, who expanded on Alice Waters’s “gourmet pizza” ideas from Chez Panisse and went on to invent the iconic smoked salmon pizza at Spago and now-ubiquitous […]
