National Detroit Style Pizza Day and America’s Endless Pizza Styles
Today is National Detroit Style Pizza Day.
It sometimes seems there is a pizza style for just about everything.
New York style. Chicago style. Detroit style. St. Louis style. California style. Sicilian style. Grandma style. Tavern style. Greek style. Neapolitan style. Roman style. Then there are pizzas named after restaurants, neighborhoods, and probably a few intersections if someone can figure out a way to market them.
Detroit style, however, really is something different.
It traces its roots to Buddy’s Rendezvous in Detroit in 1946, where the pizza was baked in blue steel pans originally manufactured for the automotive industry. The result was a thick, rectangular pizza with a crisp, caramelized cheese crust, sauce spread across the top, and a style that eventually became one of the city’s signature foods.
For today’s photograph I used a Motor City Pizza Company frozen Detroit Style Supreme pizza. Sometimes the National Days are a good excuse to try something I might not have otherwise bought, and this one turned out to be a pretty good introduction to Detroit style pizza.
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Deep Dish Pizza for Easter!
Easter gets most of the attention today. But it turns out the calendar had something else in mind.
National Deep Dish Pizza Day.
That was enough for me.
I picked up a frozen deep dish pizza, brought it back, and stacked the slices straight onto a black background. Pepperoni, sausage, cheese, peppers, thick crust holding it all together. No styling, no adjustments, just exactly what it is.
Deep dish pizza has its roots in Chicago, dating back to the 1940s, built more like a layered dish than a traditional flat pizza. Over time, it moved far beyond that origin, into grocery store freezers and everyday meals. That’s where this version lives.
That contrast is what interests me. Something that started as a regional specialty, now reduced to a frozen box, stacked and photographed in a controlled space.
That’s where my food photography fits in. Taking something familiar, something commercial, and isolating it just enough to look at it differently.
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