How did you all Strangers that went to Italy (most than all in Naples) feel when you ate a real pizza, and perhaps tried to compare it with your country's pizzas?
Wasn't it something like a revelation, like a "what-the-hell-have-I-been-eating-for-all-of-my-life?"

How did you all Strangers that went to Italy (most than all in Naples) feel when you ate a real pizza, and perhaps tried to compare it with your country's pizzas?
Wasn't it something like a revelation, like a "what-the-hell-have-I-been-eating-for-all-of-my-life?"

Ciao Zidanie

the difference between the pizza i ate back in my country and the italian pizza is the crust/ or the bread part- the one i usually ate here in italy is thin crust and thats perfectly good. back in my country, the bread/crust is not thin and after a slice or 2, you're already full but with thin crust, you can eat one pizza!

i am planning to go to naples in september, so i will see and compare the difference between the pizza in the north and the pizza from the south

maybe we can meet up too in Napoli if you're interested too!

I don't care what anyone says.. the best pizza in Naples is from Pizzeria Scugnizzo, near Piazza Garibaldi! :D

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Zidanie, which area of Naples do you live in?

Aliena, never ate there but my favorita would be the Blue Moon Ristorante in Lago. The pizza man would always give you a glass of homemade wine while you waited.
Zidanie, would you be able to share the qualities that make a Napolitano pizza? That is the size the thickness of the crust and ingredients.

I have been eating real Italian Pizza for more than 35 years! I spent a lot of time there over the years and ever since my first real Italian pizza, I have been hooked. I really can't eat American pizza anymore unless it's one that I have made.

Ciao, Dan

Alena, I'm from 30 kilometres from Naples (near Caserta), but I live there because I study at Naples University L'Orientale.
I never ate at Pizzeria Scugnizzo, gotta give it a try.
Best pizzas I've eaten so far are Vesi's (in Spaccanapoli) and Trianon's (in Forcella), but even the pizzerias on the sea at Mergellina are wonderful.

About Neapolitan pizza peculiarities, I think the key is in the combination of the ingredients and their quality (let's not forget Campania produces great tomatos, bread and mozzarella).
I imagine the fact that most of Neapolitan pizzas come from a century long tradition influences their special taste. Those who learn pizza secrets since they are kids thanks to their fathers will be more predisposed on making good pizzas, I suppose.

What do you people think is the secret why a pizza in Italy always tastes better than one elsewhere? Or you ate a better pizza somewhere?

Neapolitan pizza (pizza napoletana). Authentic Neapolitan pizzas are made with local ingredients like San Marzano tomatoes, which grow on the volcanic plains to the south of Mount Vesuvius, and Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, made with the milk from water buffalo raised in the marshlands of Campania and Lazio in a semi-wild state (this mozzarella is protected with its own European protected designation of origin).[1] According to the rules proposed by the Associazione vera pizza napoletana, the genuine Neapolitan pizza dough consists of Italian wheat flour (type 0 or 00, or a mixture of both), natural Neapolitan yeast or brewer’s yeast, salt and water. For proper results, strong flour with high protein content (as used for bread-making rather than cakes) must be used. The dough must be kneaded by hand or with a low-speed mixer. After the rising process, the dough must be formed by hand without the help of a rolling pin or other mechanical device, and may be no more than 3 mm (¹⁄₈ in) thick. The pizza must be baked for 60–90 seconds in a 485 °C (905 °F) stone oven with an oak-wood fire.[2] When cooked, it should be crispy, tender and fragrant. Neapolitan pizza has been given the status of a “guaranteed traditional specialty” in Italy. This allows only three official variants: pizza marinara, which is made with tomato, garlic, oregano and extra virgin olive oil (although most Neapolitan pizzerias also add basil to the marinara), pizza Margherita, made with tomato, sliced mozzarella, basil and extra virgin olive oil, and pizza Margherita extra made with tomato, buffalo mozzarella from Campania in fillets, basil and extra virgin olive oil.

What is known as pizza today can be traced to Naples, Italy in the Middle Ages. Maybe this is why pizza from Naples is the best pizza.

"Made popular in the United States by soldiers who brought the idea back from Italy at the end of World War II, pizza is thought to have evolved from early Egyptian flat bread."

"The first pizzeria in the USA opened in New York in 1895."

Pizzaaaaaaaaa. Naples does it for me. I don,t remember the name of the restaurant but I remember where it is. I will be there this fall and partake in that sublime pie. But first I will have a fritto misto. And of course a nice bottle of red. And then a nap.433

Great pizza is ONLY from Naples - anywhere else.. and it's rubbish! Eat pizza in the places where you see Neapolitans eating it. :D

Ed, did you used to work at the Blue Moon Ristorante in Lago Di Patria? There was a guy there that made the best pizzas and he looks a lot like you!! He used to greet us with a glass of wine to drink while he created our masterpieces.
I sure do miss that!

God Danno don't I wish. You have to get a list of these restaurants to me before I leave this fall. And we have to get together when you visit the island after labor day. Do you like to fish? Also to anyone reading. I want to go fishing with some real Italian fishermen while there. Any Idea's?

Grazie
Ed

Ed, I fish a little. (Started fishing as a kid on the farm.
Where I come from they have 100 pound cat fish.)

I go out of San Pedro. Over nighters on a 100 foot boat.
Dormo un po and then get up and fish. Right by Santa Catalina
island. Then for a few days after I'm back sitting on the can
you still feel like you're on the boat swaying
back and forth. Tu sei, che no?

Get the Italian movie "Respiro." It's about the people
in this piccolo fishing village off the coast of Sicily.

This reminds me of an Italian idiomatic expression about
fish that goes:

Non so che pesci pigliare. I don't know what fish to catch. Not really anything to do with fish though.
It means "I don't know what to do." Ma io so che fare. Pescare.

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Sailfish fishing on deep sea! by mrhaha -- Revver Online ...
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Ciao Villa,

Come stai? Spent the day on the water yesterday.The wind picked up in the afternoon and had to steam back 27 miles in the trough of 6-8 ft swells once you get your sea legs offshore they don't want to leave.. We caught one bluefin 275 lbs and some smaller ones.
I read that there was a place in one of the villages outside of Sorrento that takes you out fishing either at night or during the day. I can't seem to find the website. 100 lb catfish? sounds like fun. You have a great yellowfin fishery out there. My fantasy fishing trip will be to the Saychelle islands.
I have seen the movie Respiro. Quite authentic. Fishing is a hard life. I had to do it when I was a young man. Starting to look for airline tix for our trip. I can't believe the prices.
What have you been up to.

Ciao Ed

Ciao Villa,

Come stai? Spent the day on the water yesterday.The wind picked up in the afternoon and had to steam back 27 miles in the trough of 6-8 ft swells:eek:(Mamma mia!Santo cielo!) once you get your sea legs offshore they don't want to leave.. We caught one bluefin 275 lbs and some smaller ones.

I read that there was a place in one of the villages outside of Sorrento that takes you out fishing either at night or during the day. I can't seem to find the website. 100 lb catfish? sounds like fun. You have a great yellowfin fishery out there. My fantasy fishing trip will be to the Saychelle islands.
I have seen the movie Respiro. Quite authentic. Fishing is a hard life. I had to do it when I was a young man. Starting to look for airline tix for our trip. I can't believe the prices.
What have you been up to.

Ciao Ed

What have I been doing? Well... not as much as you, Ed. You sure
have an adventurious fun life. I admire you amico.

I know the subject has veered just a bit but I wanted to answer the original question.

The first time I had Italian pizza was in this little Italian pizzeria in Phoenix, Arizona owned by an Italian and a Greek. Married couple. They used to fight in the kitchen (scary place to be when they fought! All those knives!) and they literally threw pans at each other, and the customers were used to the screaming.

And they made the best pizza I've ever had.

When I got to Rome and had pizza... ? Minus the flying pans and knives, it was just like that restaurant in Arizona!

Teresa

PS - I liked the movie Respiro. Also very much liked Malena, and one of my favorites is Bread and Tulips. This is not the thread for that, but I needed to mention films since someone else did. :)