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  • Facts & Stories

    An Ever-Expanding Guide to The World’s Top Pizza

    Roberta Cutillo(May 28, 2019)
    ‘50 Top Pizza’, the most exhaustive online guide of the world’s best pizzerias, releases the 2019 ranking of the best European pizzas outside Italy and reveals the nominees for five other international categories. The ranking of the 50 top in North America will be revealed on June 27th during a special event in New York.
  • Life & People

    The Modernity of Pizza: A Chat With Luciano Pignataro

    Tommaso Cartia(July 18, 2017)
    How is Italian gastronomy really doing? What are its future prospects in terms of internationally trading our products and culinary specialties, in particular pizza? We were able to speak about it with Luciano Pignataro, who is a renown journalist from Il Mattino, a food expert and critic, and the founder of the very popular Luciano Pignataro Wine & Food Blog, on the occasion of the New York’s leg of “Le Strade della Mozzarella” event.
  • Dining in & out

    50 Top Pizza: The International Pizzeria Guide

    Alex Catti(July 06, 2017)
    Are you looking for the best pizzerias around the world? Fortunately, a brand-new handy guide is on its way. On June 30th, within the framework of the Le Strade Della Mozzarella (LSDM) event, New York’s Ribalta Pizzeria Restaurant hosted the presentation of the new guide "50 Top Pizza," which looks to rank the best pizzerias worldwide. It is set to be launched on July 20th and was created by journalist, food expert, and blogger Luciano Pignataro and founders of LSDM Barbara Guerra and Alberto Sapere. During the presentation, 50 Top Pizza announced the nominees and winners of its International Awards, which were conferred to some of the best pizzerias across the globe.
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    Dining in & out

    Celebrating Pasta with Primo di New York

    Mila Tenaglia and Joelle Grosso(June 29, 2017)
    The James Beard Foundation hosted the second edition of Primo di New York, a competition between the city’s top chefs, organized by Pastificio Di Martino di Gragnano. Ten finalists in the renowned "performance space" faced off with forks and knives in order to win the grand prize. The champion? We'll reveal it to you.
  • Dining in & out: Articles & Reviews

    The Many Ways of Mozzarella

    Luciano Pignataro(May 13, 2016)
    Le Strade della Mozzarella (LSDM) is one of the first Italian food festivals and the one dedicated specifically to mozzarella. It is held annually in the ancient city of Paestum, south of Naples, the land of mozzarella di bufala. And now it is going international: it has established editions in Paris, Geneva and London. This coming May LSDM will be in New York—say the two founders, Barbara Guerra and Alberto Sapere.
  • Dining in & out: Articles & Reviews

    The Italian Wine Revolution

    Rosemary D'Avernia(February 03, 2016)
    Luciano Pignataro, a journalist for Naples’ Il Mattino—the leading newspaper in Southern Italy—has spent the last thirty years writing about agriculture and the last twenty about enogastronomy. His is the longest running column on wine in an Italian paper. He is the representative of two southern regions for Slow Wine, Slow Food’s wine guide, and head of the Southern branch of the Guida Ristoranti Espresso. In 2004 he began a blog (www.lucianopignataro.it), now one of the most frequented in Italy, with almost five million hits in 2015 alone. The blog features reviews of wine, restaurants, pizzerias, pastry shops and cheeses. He has published many guides to wine and books on Neapolitan cuisine.