Competing for pizza glory at the 13th September London Pizza Festival the team behind Made of Dough chose to showcase its Chorizo pizza topped with spicy chorizo and piquillo peppers. The pizza dudes from Brixton clearly understood a factor that I, a Margherita man,...
Pizza Pilgrims
Top 5 Posts of 2014
The Young&Foodish year ended on a high note, with my signing on with Phaidon, the prestigious publisher of books by Massimo Bottura, Ferran Adrià  and René Redzepi, to compile a guide to the world's best pizzerias. This happy development should not come as too much...
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...
Pizza Pilgrims Think Out of Box & Into Pan
"I have something for you," said Londoner James Elliot, one of the Pizza Pilgrims behind the pizza van and insanely popular pizzeria of that name. "I'd like to you take it home and test it." I assumed the white pizza box Elliot handed me contained a pizza, albeit a...
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...