I love pizza. When I was in Italy (May 2000) I had the opportunity to taste an authentic Italian pizza. And I must say it was the best pizza I'd ever had. These days, around the world you get all strange types of pizza, thick crusts (i don't mind them), cheese filled edges, wired selections of toppings, etc. Yes, pizza is now a stateless, boundless, flag-less food.
To protect the authentic Neapolitan pizza making process, the Italian Ministry for Agriculture has issued guidelines for making Pizza's the traditional way.
This includes: pizza must be round, no more than 14 inches in diameter, no thicker than 0.1 inches in the middle and with a crust of about 0.8 inches. The texture must be soft, elastic, easily foldable.
This story made front page news in Naples... "an act of love, but a desperate one."
Bellissimo!
