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| What a grand pizza!
Inside the glass doors lay a giant size pizza with the works!!! Whilst aimlessly wandering around the circular maze of streets on the outer edges of Siena in Tuscany I stumbled upon this marvelously large and delicious looking pizza. It drew me in immediately. Doesn’t it look fit for a king!
Pizza in Italy comes in all shapes and sizes and is a staple in most Italian diets. Every morning early in Rome I awoke to the sweet smell of the freshly baked pizza coming from the well known pizza shop beneath my apartment in Via San Nicola da Tolentino, Barberini. It started early when the white capped and neatly hair netted pizza chefs arrived presto to tease us with the heavenly scents that drifted up into our apartment. It takes a lot of will power to resist the tantalizing smell of savory, sweet and sour freshly baked pizza, crisp on the edges with melt in the mouth juicy thin golden centers. For morning tea sometimes it would be a treat to indulge in a their specialty of sweet and sour pizza that they were well known for, not a common blend, it is topped with Nutella and crackling sea salt. Okay I know this sounds strange, yet the taste is to die for.
Then of course around lunch time the suited up local business men arrived in mass to crowd our narrow cobble stone street for an hour and enjoy their favorite two square cuts for lunch whilst socializing with work colleagues and dominating our tiny street. Pizza is everywhere in Italy, every shop, supermarket and corner store offers their ideal display of flavors under glass top benches, you can buy delicious mouth watering sliced pizza all over Italy, even when you are on the beach in summer don’t be surprised to find a pizza stand or shop in arms length. Know one knows how to make pizza like the Italian’s do, and this year whilst I am in the Italian Riviera, Tuscany and the spectacular Amalfi Coast I vow to devour my next entire years quota of tasty Italian pizza! YUM xmm
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