The next #PizzaTuesday is 16th March at Franco Manca is Chiswick. BOOK NOW

The debut of the youngandfoodish PizzaTuesday series at Datte Foco was no event for sprinters. The entrants on Tuesday night were all analytically minded marathoners of good taste who know an endurance tasting when they see one. So extraordinary was the restraint exhibited by these distance runners in the event’s earliest stages that it threatened to trample [...]

These days it’s easy to pick out the Italian expats on Stoke Newington Church St. They’re the ones picking their jaws up from the pavement after having spotted the words DATTE FOCO – slang for “light yourself on fire” – spelled out in white letters on the shop window beside the Three Crowns pub. Datte [...]

Who knows why an April breeze never remains?
Why stars in the trees hide when it rains?
Love comes along, casting a spell
Will it sing you a song?
Will it say a farewell? Who can tell?
Could the great lyricist Johnny Mercer have had pizza in mind when he matched these lines about love’s uncertainties to a Hoagy Carmichael [...]

How disappointing: no designer at London fashion week featured the white Wellington boots worn by the mozzarella makers of Campania, Italy in their collections. Stylish, hygienic and functional in a variety of social and industrial settings, the white mozza wellies, with their burly baby-blue treads, would have suited the wet-look creations, smooth finishes and pastel-accentuated [...]

The City of London was founded around 50 AD, when Emperor Claudius and his Roman army built a fortified settlement on the River Thames. Nearly 2000 years later, the scent of a quieter Roman invasion is wafting through the Londinium air, rousing knowing noses from their morning misery and lunchtime lethargy and pointing the way [...]

According to regulations set by the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, a pizza must be soft, elastic and easy to manipulate and fold to be authentic. The cheese, either mozzarella di bufala or fior di latte (cow’s milk mozza), should appear in evenly spaced patches.
Although I revere Naples as the birthplace of the tricolored Margherita – red [...]

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 and Guilio Fratelli, but its claim to fame is Aldo [...]

My new discovery at the Islington Farmers’ Market this past Sunday was organic British mozzarella di bufala from Higher Alham Farm, Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The suggestion of buffalo mozzarella from Cheddar cheese country appealed to me. Hadn’t Chris Arnot written good things about Higher Alham in the Independent? I decided to try the UK mozza [...]