Pequods Pizza in Lincoln Park, Chicago has emerged as one of the highest rated and most popular deep dish pizza places in Chicago. It’s known for a unique crust, and a unique taste. To understand the origins of the restaurant and the recipe, one needs to track the story of Burt Katz, who is called the Father of the Caramelized Crust.

In 1963 Burt Katz, who was born in Chicago’s Wicker Park, bought into a pizza joint called The Inferno in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. At that time, Katz introduced a new kind of pizza to the Chicago area consumers. It was one where he added the caramelized crust and baked it in a 14-Inch nonstick deep dish pizza pan.

The Inferno would be the first place he would own, but it would not be his last. Burt added 3 more restaurants where he enjoyed employing his intellectual and literary side in naming his restaurants. For example, with the Inferno, it was a reference to Dante Alighieri and his "The Divine Comedy" (Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso). Also, there are the pizza places: Gullivers and Pequods. One is a tribute to “Gulliver’s Travels” and the other is named after the whaling ship in “Moby Dick” respectively.

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