The longest hour of my life consisted of 60 interminable minutes waiting for a couple of slices at Di Fara Pizza in Brooklyn. Years before he turned 80, pizza legend Dom DeMarco worked at a pace all his own. On a return visit earlier this month I didn't watch the...
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Why Pizza in Naples Has to be So Soft
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...
For 3 Franco Pepe Pizzas, A Special Delivery
Forget the great operatic tenors of La Scala. No voice in all of Italy is so lyrical as that of a Pepe in Grani waiter serving you a Franco Pepe pizza. At this incomparable pizzeria in a hilltop village some 30 miles (50km) north of Naples, every pizza made by Pepe,...
Pizza Fritta Ripieno: A Neapolitan Street Food Classic in the Making
The wall menu at the great Naples pizzeria-friggitoria Di Matteo saves the best for last: The 27th of 27 listed selections is pizza fritta ripieno, a Neapolitan street food classic. The puffy golden saucer of "stuffed fried pizza" is traditionally filled with...
Now Playing in London’s West End: the Maserati of Espresso Machines & Stradivarius of Pizza Ovens
If real wizardry was what the people wanted, November's red carpets would have been diverted from the Harry Potter premiere at Odeon Leicester Square to a great new coffee shop on St Martin's Lane and a superb new pizzeria restaurant on Great Newport St. Notes Music...
#PizzaTuesday celebrates a taste of Trianon at Santoré
The connection between the London restaurant/pizzeria Santoré and the legendary Naples pizzeria Trianon da Ciro is unsubstantiated and at best tenuous. The quality of the pizza, however, does not lie. Before Crossrail construction extinguished its brick oven and...
Top 10 pizzas in London
[slider_pro id="19"] My top 10 pizzas in London list reflects a global renaissance in the appreciation of Neapolitan pizza. The difference this time is that the feeling is genuine. Naples shared its love for pizza and dry pasta with the world many years ago but...
Ferran Adrià tries pizza by descendant of legendary pizzaiolo
In an LA Times article about Ferran Adrià 's plans to open a pizzeria in Barcelona, the elBulli chef is shown sampling a pizza margherita at Turin 's Frattelli La Cozza [corso Regio Parco 39, tel: +39 011859900 map.] That pizzeria may take its name from brothers Carlo...