For pizza king Michele Pascarella, pineapple topping is nothing short of blasphemous!

In the event you love pizza, likelihood is that you’ve got eaten a suitcase stuffed with pizza by the top of the yr. A 2023 research confirmed that on common, a pizza lover will eat about 18o slices in a single yr. And it’s no shock – tacky, saucy and sizzling out of the oven, there’s not a lot that pizza can’t treatment. However there’s one one that maybe loves pizza somewhat greater than the remainder of us: The Greatest Pizza Chef on this planet.

Taking the crown for the distinguished Global Pizza Maker award was Michele Pascarella, head chef and founding father of Napoli on the Road in Chiswick, London. Pascarella was topped International Pizza Maker of the Yr award on the illustrious World Top 50 Pizza Awards.

The annual ceremony relies on a rigorous choice course of, together with nameless restaurant visits by pizza critics. The chef was just lately within the nation as a part of the Masters of Marriott Bonvoy and Culinary Tradition the place Pascarella served a rigorously curated signature Michele Pascarella tasting menu in Goa on the JW Marriott this December, saying that it was an emotional expertise to have his pizza delivered to the world stage. In an interview with ET Panache, Pascarella talks toppings, tips and methods to tuck right into a pizza.

My first pizza: Once I was younger we used to eat a lot of pizzas, as a result of once you develop up in Naples, the tradition of pizzas is straightforward to seek out in each a part of town. I bear in mind I used to be ready all week lengthy for a Sunday pizza. I ate my first pizza once I was simply 2 years outdated, in our much-loved, native pizzeria in Maddaloni (Caserta) and have fond recollections of it.

On carrying the pizza crown: It’s so emotional my title in all places, however after all of the work that I’ve put in in the previous couple of years, I really feel liable for the longer term era of pizza cooks

A giant secret: The one secret is to be really passionate and keep 100% centered at all times.

Not on my pie: I may give you 4 particular do nots of toppings: 1) Pineapple 2) Recent fruit 3) An excessive amount of chilli oil 4) Hen.

Fork Knife or fingers: As is the same old for a Neapolitan chef, I favor to eat pizza with my fingers, in fact.

My favorite pizza: A easy Margherita pizza is my favorite, when completed effectively.

Greatest pizza blasphemy: It needs to be pineapple on pizza!

Go to consolation meals: As I grew up in a metropolis the place avenue meals is essential, fried frittatina is my favorite go-to meals (other than pizza in fact!). Frittatina is a fried pasta quiche with bechamel sauce and meat.

At all times in my fridge: Tomato, in fact