The village is dominated by the tower bell of the main church and the mill itself, the new one, as the old one, on the other side of Via Roma, is small-medium sized. Here the Quaglia family created Università della Pizza, a place for courses, conferences and tastings.

A couple of weeks ago the winter session ended with a final tasting of pizzas created, made and baked by the students. The jury included, on top of myself, also Corrado Assenza, Massimiliano Prete, Carmine Nasti and Piero Gabrieli.

The topic: Spring, which Assenza and Prete even interpreted masterfully at the beginning of the evening. Then there were a dozen students, a couple making their very first pizza, divided into groups of 2 or 3 as with the three pizzaiole, Lorenza Russo, Marianna Poggese and Stefania Pulliero.

In the end, the most appreciated pizza was in fact theirs, designed by all and called Campo fiorito thanks to some flowers in the middle of the serving dish, but not on the single slices. It was made by two of them alone, as Russo had to return to Pescara to prepare the station for the following day.

Her colleagues, before putting the dough in the oven, brushed it with a cream of basil (I would have preferred it if it was stronger) and covered in slices of caciotta from Monti Lessini. Once out of the oven, they added asparagus from Badoere, both green and white, prosciutto from Montagnana and sunflower honey.

One important note: both were making the first serious pizza in their career as pizzaiole, a journey they’re basically starting now.

We were all surprised. Last year Poggese graduated in Restaurant sciences and technologies in Milan («Following the success of Masterchef, 300 people had enrolled at first, but before graduating 200 dropped out»). With her fiancé she decided to open a pizzeria in Verona. Pulliero instead, comes from Mirano (Venice) where she recently took over an old trattoria with her husband Mauro, a couple of years ago, transforming it into a pizzeria. Two beautiful stories.

Paolo Marchi
source: http://www.identitagolose.it/news/view.php?id=23

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