In December, Chef Ruth Gresser, 60, opened the fifth outpost of her Pizzeria Paradiso chainlet, which ignited the Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza trend when the first location opened in Washington’s Dupont Circle in 1991. Her latest outpost is in the Upper Northwest D.C. neighborhood of Spring Valley. We caught up with the Baltimore native, who lives in Silver Spring with her wife, Barbara Johnson, to ask about her career.
