Stella Barra S Jeff Mahin On Your Right To Pizza Party

• Michael Gebert
• Jeff Mahin

If you want to rile up the natives of Foodlandia, there’s no better way than starting the deep-dish pizza argument (Is it a pizza? A casserole? An abomination unto the Lord?) yet again. Eater yesterday did that by getting Graham Elliot and David Posey of Blackbird, as well as Andrew Zimmern and New York’s Mathieu Palombino, to cast the usual aspersions; as Chicagoist noted, this comes, ironically, just as New Yorkers are flocking to a hot new deep-dish pizza place in their city, Emmett’s, which surely means that soon we’ll have Manhattan transplants to Chicago whining on social media that there’s nowhere to get a good New York-style deep dish in this backwater burg.