It’s not like the heat will stop one from craving pizza. Indeed, pizza is the perfect food for the summer, perhaps eating it on the beach or by a pool, or in a nice restaurant with air conditioning.
It was to celebrate pizza as the queen of the summer, that GazzaGolosa (the food column on Gazzetta dello Sport founded and directed by Daniele Miccione and Pier Bergonzi) organised the Pizza dell’estate contest in collaboration with Joyful, a new line of Italian bubbles created to be paired with pizza.
At Bagno Peppino 245 in Milano Marittima – what a better location than a beach resort? – eight among the best pizzaioli in Italy competed with their pizzas, assessed by a jury of journalists and professionals.
On top of Miccione, there was also Giorgia Cannarella (GazzaGolosa, Identità Golose and Munchies), Lydia Capasso (GazzaGolosa and Corriere della Sera), Andrea Grignaffini (Guida ai ristoranti dell'Espresso and teacher at Alma), Tania Mauri (Guida alle pizzerie dell'Espresso andGazzaGolosa), Niccolò Vecchia (Identità Golose), sommelier Luca Gardini, 2010 world champion, ice cream maker Simone De Feo (Capolinea from Reggio Emilia) and chef Simone Di Gennaro (Casa di Mare in Forlì).
They did a strictly blind tasting of the pizzas from the competing pizzaioli: Matteo Aloe of Berberè (eight locations in Italy: Bologna, Milano, Rome...), Gennaro Battiloro of Battil’Oro in Versilia, Renato Bosco of Saporé in Veneto, Marzia Buzzanca of Percorsi di Gusto in L’Aquila, Bernardo Garofalo of pizzeria Montecarlo in Siracusa, Ciro Salvo of 50 Kalò in Naples, Corrado Scaglione of Enosteria Lipen in Brianza and Stefano Vola of Vola in Piedmont.
They competed in two categories: the classic Margherita and a regional pizza that would represent their area.
The winner of the first place for his Margherita was young Stefano Vola from the Langhe.
The best “territorial” pizza was the one by Ciro Salvo, the delicious Aprilatica with cream of broccoli, sausage from nero casertano pigs, buffalo milk mozzarella and cacioricotta from Cilento.
Renato Bosco was however the absolute winner, conquering the jury with his very light Margherita and a fragrant crunch with Venere rice flour filled with grisa hen from Lessinia cooked in saor, chards and burrata. He won 1000 bottles of Joyfull, to match his pizzas.
Luciana Squadrilli
source: http://www.identitagolose.it/news/view.php?id=97
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