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http://cristianoluchini.blogspot.com/ consiglia la visione del video seguente. Il maestro pizzaiolo Antonio Starita ci parla delle caratteristiche di un piatto amato in tutto il mondo, la pizza napoletana. "Sapore popolare" - "Popular taste" Authors - Cristiano Luchini, Alessia Battistoni, Dalila Milizia Narrator: Long time ago, there was a boy called Totò Sapore. He was a very good cooker and in the Royal Palace's kitchens, he was a very important person. But a day ,the King found an hair in the stew, and decided to put him in prison. Totò, the, wrote a letter to the King : " I ask for a proof. If I will succeed in cooking a dish, neither starter, nor second course, warm like the hell, perfumed like the paradise, round like the world and difficult to forget, I desire to be free. The King accepted the proposal and in 10 minutes he received a steaming and delicious dish. The Sovereign was surprised, in fact he ate with taste and said: "Totò Sapore, you are free but take me immediately another plate of this. The cooker bowed and turned back to the kitchen... he was preparing another PIZZA. Clip from the movie "L'oro di Napoli" (Italy, 1954) Sofia Loren: Wake up! Wake up! Come and have an afternoon snack! You can eat without paying, here! (PART 1) Interview to Antonio Starita (Pizza Master) Mr. Starita: The dough and cooking technic are the two key-processes which characterize the neapolitan pizza. During the years, people gave a lot of names to pizza, according to its variety, For example: Margherita, Mastro Nicola which is a very basic pizza composed by cheese and oil. It was the ideal meal for poor people. The same was for the Marinara, with just garlic and oregano. Clip from the movie "L'oro di Napoli" (Italy, 1954) Kid: Two pizzas for Sir Cutolo. Man: Who? Sir Cutolo? He has 2 months of debts with me, I can't give anything to him!! (PART 2) Interview Mr Starita : Even if pizza is very famous all around the world, the art of preparing the neapolitan pizza is unique, and we must protect it. Long time ago, poor people used to eat pizza with hands because of their scanty economical conditions, pizza was a "street meal" .But it's also important to eat pizza with cutlery in order to ennoble it. The cheaper pizza is Marinara which has a price a little lower than the Margherita's one. I can't say which is the most expensive pizza, because it's depends on the pizza cooker's fantasy, especially if he's young. A lot of young pizza cookers invent new varieties of pizza, good but also bad ones... The important thing is keeping the dough tradition and using the wood stove. Clip from the movie "L'oro di Napoli" (Italy, 1954) Man: Battalion! Your attention, please! We arrived at the Master's. He's a very good person. The Master has got a very good quality of meal that will surely satisfy your stomach! (PART 3) Interview Mr. Starita: Nowadays, the pizzerias have changed their way to approach customers, using fantasy and particular menus to attract them. This because of the competitiveness of McDonald's restaurants and fast foods. In short.... pizza is a jovial meal, just think about what you do when you stay with your friends: you often decide to eat all together, good pizza. It's always a pleasure, isn't it? Narrator: Since ever, pizza is a synonym of conviviality and friendship, everybody love it, without differences, adults and kids, noblemen and servants, boors and burgeois, soldiers of opposing factions. A universal meal with a popular soul. This is the key of its enormous success. With its intense perfumesof tomato and basil, with that delicious taste of stringy and soft mozzarella, with its round form like the globe, pizza spreads armony, becoming in every corner of the world, the dish of peace.

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