St. Louis-Style Pizza Pioneer Jim Parrott Has Died

Parrott. James "Jim" Parrott, the longtime proprietor of Farotto’s in Rock Hill, Missouri, died on Sunday of cancer. His Post-Dispatch obituary notes he started picking up shifts at the south St. Louis restaurant, a family business, when he was just 9 years old, and later signed on full-time after a knee injury sidelined his baseball career. In Missouri, Imo's usually gets credit for originating St. Louis–style pizza, identified by its layer of melted Provel, cracker-thin crust, and square s...