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Article: Hunting for the best pizza in Naples, Italy
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 29, 2009
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Forget the pepperoni. Jettison the mushrooms. And don't even
think about piling on more sausage. In Naples, you start with the
basics.
If the tomato sauce isn't rich and gooey, if the cheese isn't
oozing its way into your mouth and if the crust isn't paper thin,
bubbling and smelling like it just came out of a wood-fire oven,
then you are not eating a genuine Neapolitan pizza. And heaven help
the person who made it for you.
Naples jealously guards its reputation as the city that invented
pizza, and its pizza police are sticklers about the rules. Tomatoes
must be grown in the rich, volcanic soil surrounding the city.
Mozzarella cheese must come from buffalo milk, instead of cow's. And
then ...