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Article: Pizza perfection
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2007
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Christopher Hirst is a food writer on a mission: to recreate the
authentic taste of the divine pizza he once ate in Naples. But can
our amateur cook really bring the flavour of Italy to a south-
London kitchen? Photographs by James Boardman
If you hear me making a slight groaning noise from time to time,
it is because I have just made and consumed 20-odd pizzas in five
days. This strange, not-entirely-healthy diet was inspired by the
new Oxford Companion to Italian Food by Gillian Riley (19.99).
Authoritative, erudite and unexpectedly entertaining, it is also of
wider interest than you might expect. In recent decades, the daily