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Article: Chicago Pizza Rules! // Naples' Naysayers Get Busted
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 15, 1995
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A few months ago the "pizza police," a three-man team from the Naples
Pizza Association, came to the United States and put a choke-hold on
the way we make, bake and eat pizza. This trio drew up 10 rules for
making authentic Neapolitan pizza, while suggesting that the pizza
we eat here is, well, pretty sorry stuff.
"Preserve the purity of pizza," they say. "Go home," I say.
Let us eat pizza our way. If we had to follow their rules, we
would never eat pizza again. For example: The diameter of a pizza
should not exceed 12 inches. The oven for baking pizza must be made
of brick and the fuel must be wood. The sauce must be freshly made
from plum tomatoes, oregano, garlic and olive oil. ...