What Is Colorado Style Pizza?

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all know the classic regional pizza styles: New York, Chicago, Detroit. But Colorado? If you haven’t heard of that one, you’re not alone. Paul Karolyi, a reporter and executive producer of City Cast Denver, spent six years trying to uncover the story of how Colorado style pizza was invented, and why more people don’t know about it.

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0:00.0	Sirius XM Podcasts.
0:10.0	Can you tell me the origin story of Colorado-style pizza?
0:16.0	The origin story of Colorado-style pizza.
0:19.4	All right.
0:20.1	This is going to be hard with the microphone this close because I have to lay back and get
0:24.1	in a really comfortable position to start thinking about that.
0:28.2	I'll give you the real story, not the happy story, okay?
0:33.9	This is the Sporkful.
0:35.4	It's not for foodies.
0:36.4	It's for eaters.
0:37.4	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:38.7	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:43.3	Across America, there are various well-known regional styles of pizza, right?
0:47.5	You have New York's large, foldable slices, New Haven's A Pizza or A Beats, a bit thinner and heavily charred.
0:54.3	Detroit style is a thick square pizza.
0:56.5	It's got crispy caramelized cheese around the edges.
0:59.4	There's ultra-thin St. Louis style and, of course, Chicago Deep Dish.
1:03.5	If you live in a place with its own style of pizza, it's the kind of thing you take your friends to eat when they come to visit.
1:09.0	It's a source of local pride.
1:11.7	Paul Corolli is a reporter and executive producer of the Daily Local News Podcast,
1:15.9	CityCast Denver. Paul grew up in Ohio. When he moved to Denver as an adult, he became obsessed
1:21.0	with something called Colorado-style pizza. It's not as well known as others I mentioned. In fact,
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