Always Great Pizza at Gino’s in Salinas, California by Ruth Paget
My go-to pizza place in Salinas, California is Gino’s located between Wise Music and Nob Hill Supermarket on Main Street (Highway 68).
For the 4th of July holiday, this is the pizza my daughter Florence Paget and I have been ordering to go along with mangonadas and sundaes from Baskin-Robbins:
-sweet pepperoni flavored with red pepper that tastes like sweet paprika from Hungary
-chopped onion that is sweet like Vidalia onions from Georgia
-beefy-tasting wild mushroom slices that be locally sourced from the mountains around Monterey County
-melted but not stringy tangy tasting mozzarella di bufala chesse from the Campania region around Naples, Italy
-sweet tomato-basil sauce to tie everything together
-firm crust baked to a caramel brown made from 00 pizza flour that was like a soft German pretzel
Pizza like this one from Gino’s in Salinas, California sets a standard for artisanal pizza.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
