Naples shared its love of pizza and dry pasta with the world many years ago but something got lost in translation. Rather than eat pasta al dente and pizza soft, in the Neapolitan way, foreigners learned to do the opposite. Non-Italians at last discovered the...
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A Pox on the Pizza Polka Dots
Until this week I assumed the appearance of mozzarella polka dots on Neapolitan-style pizzas was an unintended consequence of using the wrong cheese or handling the right cheese improperly. But groundbreaking London pizza merchants like Franco Manca and Pizza...
Neapolitan Pizza Master Enzo Coccia Loves Stringy Fior di Latte
Neapolitans may sing the praises of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP but mostly they eat fior di latte – mozzarella made from cow's milk – on their pizza. Any ambivalence about fior di latte , as opposed to buffalo mozzarella, might have something to do with...