Article: Cook rises to occasion with winning pizza recipe

An amateur bread baker who created a marvelous deep-dish five-cheese pizza won the Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Style Pizza Recipe contest.

"I like working with breads," said Gary Baldwin. "What I like about pizza is that I'm making a bread with a lot of wonderful toppings."

Baldwin, who comes from Indiana, feels that not being a native gives him an edge as a pizza maker.

"People here take pizza for granted. When I moved to Chicago, I was overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of pizzas," he said.

As soon as the judges saw Baldwin's recipe, it was obvious he had the fixings for a great pizza and moved up to one of six to make the final tasting. The judges were Sun-Times food writers ...

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