Posted on 04/15/2014 2:22:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Australian pizza is now officially the best in the world. Well, sort of.
Judges at last weekend's Campionato Mondiale Della Pizza (Pizza World Championship) held in Parma, Italy, awarded the world's top margherita pizza title to Australian chef Johnny Di Francesco, owner of the 400 Gradi restaurant in Brunswick, a Melbourne suburb.
Di Francesco, 36, beat more than 600 competitors from 35 countries to take home the Specialita Traditionale Garantita pizza prize in the annual competition.
The win and subsequent publicity has made the small restaurant he owns in his hometown an overnight sensation.
"It's been an amazing reaction," Di Francesco tells CNN. "Honestly, I just went to Naples to do what I love. I didn't think it was going to make such a stir."
"A lot of people think it is easy to produce a margherita but it is one of the hardest (pizzas) to produce," Di Francesco told Australian website Good Food.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Not correct, but somewhat almost right anyway. My grandmother's grandmother had immigrated from Italy. My grandmother still cooked Italian food the way she he had been taught by her mother and grandmother. This meant she was basically using recipes from the 1840s-1850s. And every so often she would make a “pizza pie.”
And it was HORRIBLE!
Pizza Pie was basically a way to get rid of leftovers>. It had an upper and lower crust, with whatever was left over in the middle. I absolutely hated it.
When I was in high school we had these places called Shakey’s Pizza open throughout the city. Everybody in school went on and on about how good it was. I of course thought they had to be idiots.
One day I relented and tried it. WOW. As I told my then girlfriend, “I don't know what this is because it is sure as heck not pizza pie, but it is darn good!”
What was called pizza pie in the 1800s in Italy and what was called pizza in the US in the 1960s, were two entirely different things.
My experience was the exact same...I don't think they knew what pizza was...{the wags were right pizza originated in NYC.]
You’ve never had pizza till you’ve had Korean pizza. Here’s a video on how to make it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biIKpegx7h4
No one place can claim the “best pizza”,....the best pizza is a completely subjective thing.
True...especially now Harp is the mayor of New Illegal Haven. They have good places and historical places for food.Lois Lunch the birthplace for the hamburger.
Beau Joe’s in Denver. Nothing like it anywhere. Served with honey for dipping leftover crust if you like.
I can unfortunately confirm the accuracy of the video :(
Agreed!!!
Baked on the BBQ..and came out awesome!!
I've had pizza all over Italy, as recently as 2 weeks ago in Rome.
I'm pretty certain that here in America if I were to open a restaurant that sold "authentic Italian-style pizza" I would go out of business in a week.
Just terrible stuff. The sauce was little more than watered-down ketchup.
I live in the sticks...and frozen is basically all I'm getting "delivered". Ha!!
I touch them up with extra cheese and meats sometimes....!! Love them!!
FRegards,
That’s funny. Similar to the origins of Cobb salad which originated in the famous old Brown Derby restaurant when the chef Cobb would take the leftovers and make a salad.
Thanks!
EVOO?
Was on the downside..but still fun.
If it was so bad....why did you keep ordering it all over Italy?
That sounds disgusting. I love pizza more than almost any other food but if I was forced to eat that type of the Chicago “pizza casserole” I would be turned off pizza for good. I remember going to a place local in town called Honey Crust Pizza that was getting rave reviews and people I knew loved it. I went in and ordered a cheese pizza with spinach. It was a deep dish style which I was unfamiliar with at that time. It comes out and I life a slice out and the middle was oozing with what I can best describe as a spinach dip filling. It was more liquid than cheese and I about hurled right then and there. To make matters worse they didn’t even have regular tea but peace tea and it was gross and it smelled like they made it using well water which has that rotten egg sulfur smell. I never went there again and good riddance as it went out of business, it sucked!
How far back was that?
Dominos Pizza ... Right down the street from me!
(And only $7.99 Mon-Thur) 8)
Dominos Pizza ... Right down the street from me!
(And only $7.99 Mon-Thur) 8)
Extra Virgin Olive Oil = EVOO
The pizza at the Greensboro Coliseum was some chain job but I swear I still think about it.
New York Pizza in Greensboro NC was good because they were running heroin through and used real Sicilians.
Mountain View Italian restaurant in Ironto Va is a former gas station run by people hiding from the Mob and they make good pizza. Off I-81 just south of Roanoke.
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