On September 25th at 6:10am GMT I flew from London to Naples, Italy. On September 25th at 9pm CET I flew from Naples back to London. I spent the time between trying 16 Neapolitan pizza at eight of the world’s greatest pizzerias in the space of 8 hours.
To fully appreciate the art and science of pizza in its historic epizzentre you have to explore its surface textures, features and forms.
THE PIZZA OF NAPLES IN TWO MINUTES, my video compression of the September 25th pizza crawl, traces the topography of Neapolitan pizza, from the stretching of the dough in the practiced hands of the pizzaiolo to his rotating of the crust as it puffs and browns under the torrents of intense heat in the wood-fired brick oven to his unveiling of the finished Margherita, its surface glistening with deposits of molten mozzarella and plum tomato sauce.
The eight pizzerias featured in the video are:
(in order of appearance)
Di Matteo
Pepe in Grani
Trianon da Ciro
Antica Pizzeria Port’Alba
L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele
Europea di Mattozzi
Gino Sorbillo
Regina Margherita
A masterpiece Dan you have forced me once again to urge the authorities to award you the Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana.
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Dino – I thought about you on the day and wished you were there. I can’t imagine doing it a Naples pizza crawl a second time without you being along for the ride.
We have a Forrest Sherman High School Naples, Italy FB. group and this video has been discovered & posted on it. We can all relate since we’ve lived there @ one point or another. Our family lived there from 72-76′. He was wondering possibly what the exact lyrics were translated into English. Perhaps we hear a Neapolitan (Napolaton) 😉 accent ? Mille Graze ~ Vedi Napoli e poi muori !
That’s bloody great, “tanto di capppello”, next trip I sugget a competition to choose a lucky “pizza mate” . Best