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The ultimate pizza primer

Once, pizza was simple: it was flat and round, occasionally deep-dish and sometimes had a stuffed crust. But recently Britain has undergone a pizza revolution, with a new wave of hip restaurants pushing niche pizza, from al taglio squares to New York slices. It can seem bewildering, but no more – read on for your ultimate pizza primer. Tuck in!

Detroit-style at Ramona, Manchester

Served in rectangular slices, Detroit-style pizza has a thick, focaccia-like base that’s topped, in reverse order, with meat, cheese and an intense, cooked tomato sauce (hence its nickname, ‘red top’). Fittingly for a pizza originally baked in shallow steel trays that were

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