Call them pizzelle fritti, if you insist on using the correct term for this Neapolitan treat. But I took one bite of the golden dough fritter topped with spicy tomato sauce and grated Parmesan and instantly thought doughnut. Savoury doughnut. Pizza doughnut. [Read more...]
Pizza Doughnut Pops Up in City of London
30 March 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 and Guilio Fratelli, but its claim to fame is Aldo Brandi, the sole living pizzaiolo directly descended from Raffaele Esposito Brandi. According to legend, Raffaele created the tricolored pizza – basil green, mozzarella white, tomato red – to honor Margherita, first queen of the united Italy. The Buster Keaton-like photo is of Aldo Brandi, though I’m not sure if he’s in the frame, holding the frame or both.
13 May 2009 By Leave a Comment
My first – and last – pizza made with mozzarella from British buffaloes
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 atop my weekly homemade Margherita pizza and enhance my organic/local sourcing credentials. My iPhone calculated a distance of 202km between Islington and Shepton Mallet, whereas the route from Islington to Caserta, Italy covered 2,017 km. My net savings: 1,128 food miles. [Read more...]
24 March 2009 By 6 Comments
