If you take even a passing interest in Arizona's culinary scene, you know the name Chris Bianco, the self-made pizzaiolo and restaurateur whose handicraft and devotion to quality ingredients has singlehandedly made Phoenix, of all places, synonymous with world-class pizza.

Bianco's pizza has been lauded as one of the best in the country by everyone from Martha Stewart to the James Beard Foundation (which awarded him the regional Southwest Best Chef award in 2003). Bianco's success and influence has been so great and so unprecedented in the Valley, the Phoenix food scene might easily be divided into two general historical eras: Before Bianco and After Bianco.

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