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Article: Italian Pizza Puts Others to Shame
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- February 16, 2006
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DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer
AP Online
02-16-2006
Dateline: TURIN, Italy
The secret is in the dough. Not too hard, not too soft, but just the right mix of flour, water, yeast and salt. It should be chewy, but not too chewy. It should be crisp, but not brittle.
The cheese must be fresh; the sauce must be nothing but fresh crushed tomatoes. The result? A self-contained gourmet meal that neither looks, nor tastes, like any of its offspring abroad.
Because Italian pizza reduces all others to Chef Boyardee status.
And while the Winter Games are under way, pizza is on a lot of people's plates.
Here, it's not served in slices; that's what foreigners do. A genteel Italian uses a knife and fork ...
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