Joy, Gino's East definitely DOES NOT use cornmeal in their dough formulation. The yellow coloring comes from an old friend, food coloring. In fact, the only restaurants that do use cornmeal in their dough would be falling into that myth that it belongs. That rumor began with either Jeff Smith or Pasquale Bruno. Using it on the peel for traditional or thin crust pies in accurate in that many do. PJH, what I've done for some olive oil flavoring when greasing the pan is whisking olive oil into some Crisco for a solid. I've been doing this for a while, I just know how frustrating this can be for newcomers when your dough keeps sliding down from the oil in the pan.

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