Donna Marie Malnati has been widely credited with creating the secret recipe for the deep-dish pizza crust used in a few of Chicago's most famous pizzerias. She died in early January at the age of 93.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
And now for a story far away from the hard news of the day. It's a story about pizza - Chicago pizza and the woman behind a famous crust.
MAUREEN O'DONNELL: This will be a good tomato-y (ph) palate cleanser.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
That's Maureen O'Donnell. She writes obituaries for the Chicago Sun-Times.
O'DONNELL: And I wrote the obituary of Mama Malnati, who is at the epicenter of two Chicago pizza dynasties.
SHAPIRO: Mama Malnati was born Donna Marie Carter in a small city in Iowa. Eventually, she moved to Chicago to become a registered nurse.
CHANG: But Chicago had other plans for her.
O'DONNELL: She got on the bus, came to the big city, and lo and behold, she became this pizza czarina.
CHANG: The czarina of deep-dish pizza, that is - you know, the thick, sit-in-your-stomach pizza Chicago is so famous for.
O'DONNELL: Some New Yorkers say it's more like a casserole.
SHAPIRO: As fate would have it, Mama Malnati met her soon-to-be husband Rudy Malnati while he was working in a pizza shop, and together, they created a deep-dish crust that would change the landscape of the Chicago pizza scene.
O'DONNELL: It's a love story written in tomato sauce and lots of good cheese.
CHANG: They passed the secret recipe onto their sons, who went on to run successful pizzerias of their own.
SHAPIRO: Like their son Rudy Malnati Jr. He founded Pizano's pizzeria, and he nearly started a rift in the family.
RUDY MALNATI JR: I went to her, and I said, Mom, I'm getting ready to open another restaurant, but this time I think we ought to do a thin crust pizza along with a deep-dish. And she said, you know, Rudy, I don't think we should do that.
CHANG: Well, she eventually caved. She worked in the kitchen making thick and thin crust until the very end.
SHAPIRO: Mama Malnati died earlier this month at age 93, and she left her son with explicit instructions about how she wanted to be celebrated this weekend - with pizza.
MALNATI JR: She told me, Rudy, whatever you do, all I want is deep-dish. No thin crust at that thing.
SHAPIRO: They'll be serving around 5,000 slices of deep-dish - sausage and cheese.
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