2 pizzas on 3 They Are Made With Lithuanian Mozzarella and Tomato Chinese: Source Coldiretti which has made public the list of contaminated foods that arrive in Italy.

I appeal to colleagues pizzaioli, to pizzerias holders and to all / and those who prepare the pizza at home, but you, that products used to prepare pizza?

According to authoritative sources “coldiretti” in 2015 imports of tomato paste from China rose 379% which is equal to 10% of national production, and also scares the importation of olive oil from Tunisia increased by 279%.

Also worrying is the increase in the 17% casearei of products for the production of mozzarella from Lithuania.

2 pizzas on 3 They Are Made With Lithuanian Mozzarella and Tomato Chinese

Initial estimates of the 2016 They are even more alarming when you look at the fact that there is an increase of one thousand tons of wheat from other countries, mainly from Canada.

All this happens daily before our eyes without the actual indication of origin of these foods is declared on the label (allowed by current legislation).

I'll cringe when I think that if a small operator makes a mistake on the compilation of the table of its ingredients in its pizzeria can incur huge fines or even days of their local closing.

The pizza, only in Italy with a total turnover 10 billion Euros and, listen Listen… every day is turning out 5 million pizzas for a total of 1,8 pizzas billion per year.

The equivalent in terms of ingredients:

200 million pounds of flour

225 million pounds of mozzarella

30 million pounds of olive oil

260 million pounds of tomatoes

All these data make us realize that 2 pizzas on 3 produced in Italy, They are “contaminate” by ingredients from foreign countries. This is unfair competition.

2 pizzas on 3 They Are Made With Lithuanian Mozzarella and Tomato Chinese

Dear friends, be careful what you buy when you prepare the pizza.

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Ranking of the most sought pizzas. We begin 2016 with a rather interesting statistic. Ours is a site that deals exclusively with pizza, so if we want to make a ranking of the most sought pizzas year there is no better place from which to draw in order to obtain valid statistics. One that we will submit actually, It is a ranking of the most read articles on our site, that is, what people have searched on Google more about the pizza throughout the 2015 and they have landed on our site.

First we try to understand what nationality originate these readers who seek information on the pizza:

Our website in the world

54% Italian

15% Brazilian

14% Spanish

10% American

7% Rest of the world

Ranking of the most sought pizzas during 2015: The most clicked articles on our site.

MOST READ ARTICLES

1. At what temperature to cook the pizza
2. The Pizza Capricciosa Original Recipe and preparation
3. The Pepperoni Pizza Recipe and Preparation
4. Recipe for Making the Perfect Pizza Slices in House
5. Course Pizzaiolo online
6. Dough for homemade pizza
7. How to Make Croissants Filled with Salted Dough Pizza
8. Topinambur in Cucina 10 Fantastic Recipes
9. 10 perfect ways pizza seasoning
10. La Focaccia Pugliese Recipe Mediterranean
11. Oil in pizza dough
12. The Delicious Pizza Carbonara Recipe and Preparation
13. Which flour to use for pizza, desserts and homemade pasta?
14. Pizza 4 Cheese Recipe
15. Yeast or brewer's yeast for pizza dough?
16. Pizza alla Romana Recipe scrocchiarella
17. How to Make Oil Spicy House
18. Electric stove or oven for cooking pizza?
19. The Pizza Siciliana Traditions and Recipe

Ranking of the most sought pizzas

Conclusion:

Examining this ranking, one can easily deduce that all the readers of our site can be classified as absolute “gourmets” in search of perfection.

At the top of the ranking of the most read articles, stands “at what temperature to cook the pizza” a very good article that contains lots of useful information, hints and tips on pizza.

The second place is occupied by the stable and “Classical” pizza capricious. To my surprise, in third place is the Pepperoni Pizza, famous all over the world, more than in Italy, pizza feature that provides for the filling with a thin sliced ​​beef salami, slightly spicy, just called “pepperoni”. This pizza is most needed and figure invariably in all the UK's menu, in the US and Australia.

In fifth place is the course of pizza Online. Are always more people who sign up to our valuable online course, if you know more, click here.

In sixth place, among the items sought, there is the classic recipe of the dough to make pizza. Twelfth figure supercalorica “Carbonara pizza”.

You can check at any time the statistics to date of this ranking, which it is available in all pages of the site on the sidebar “Black” left.

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That record!!! The world's longest pizza.
The 20 June will be a date to remember for the Italian pizza makers. E’ It was realized the Expo of Milan a long pizza 1595,45 meters and it was therefore torn the previous record held by Spain 1141,5 meters.

The Pizza More Long World

Total weight of 5 tons.
The company was brought to an end by 80 Italian pizza with 200 volunteers. For the preparation of the pizza records were needed 5 ovens, a ton and seven hundred kilograms of Italian mozzarella, 1500 pounds of tomatoes, 150 pounds of extra virgin olive oil, 1700 pounds of flour and 30 pounds of yeast.
Cooking times? 3 minutes for each meter of pizza.
The pizza was offered to 30.000 visitors and expo 300 meters of pizza were delivered to the food bank in Milan.
With the completion of this Guinness record, we wanted to celebrate the birthday of pizza margherita that has made its 126 age, In fact it was the year 1889 when he was summoned to court by the pizza maker Raffaele Esposito then she prepares for the royal family of pizzas for her majesty the Queen Margherita of Savoy.

The Pizza More Long World

This primacy, It acts as a support for the candidacy international registration of pizza in the unesco list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
For those who do not is Acquaintances, the business of pizza has achieved in the Itala 10 billion euro, account 63 thousand pizzerias and employs 150 thousand employees. Furthermore, the 39 percent of Italians believe that the pizza is the culinary symbol of Italy according to the website of coldiretti www.coldiretti.it , after all the pizza is the best known Italian word abroad, followed by cappuccino, spaghetti and espresso.
For more information, read the article RaiNews

If you are interested in preparing your home a perfect pizza margherita, please read our previous article on how to prepare a pizza margherita perfect.

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Pizza sandwich against Mc Donald
After transmission Report dedicated to the pizza that has angered millions of Italians, Also giant McDonald has turned against the pizza, but this time Italians have risen by responding with clear messages in the network against the multinational company that has dared to challenge our culinary culture.
It seems endless controversy that revolves around the giant McDonald, They were affected all the charges of Italian pizza makers, in a television commercial the global giant has ridiculed the symbol of Italian cuisine, ie pizza, to promote the Happy meal. In tale video, a child sitting at the table of an Italian pizzeria pizza rejects in favor in favor of the sandwich.
Immediately on youtube appeared response Neapolitan pizza showing a boy……I invite you to see the two videos and leave your comments on this page.
The controversy came up in parliament, where the Movement 5 stars, by Luigi Di Maio presented exposed AGCOM to obscure the advertisement and ask to be excluded as an official sponsor of expo 2015.
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The term “pizzeria” It is used to indicate several different types of business where the pizza is prepared.
Pizzeria / restaurant, Pizzeria to the cut or takeaway, pizza delivery at home, big fast food chains.
There are other places where it can be consumed pizza: the Rosticcerie, bakeries,. the gastronomy, hypermarkets.
Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: The pizzeria / restaurant
The term pizzeria, It is indicated a particular type of restaurant, which serves mainly pizza, trousers, buns and various fried. In the pizzerias you can find other types of food as at any restaurant, guests are served at the table and choose from a menu.
In addition to these local chef is a pizza maker in charge of the oven and the baking of pizzas.
Pizzerias offer the pizza always round up to the plate, so you can decide how much, except in some local, where you can choose between different sizes (small-medium-large). Some pizzerias offer the service of take away, and special containers are used cardboard with which the customer carries the pizza at home.
Some traditional pizzerias, besides the pizza dish, They offer pizza booklet, a small pizza folded in wallet, wrapped with paper food, to be consumed in road.

Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: The pizza slices and takeaway

Much like a diner, this type of pizzeria has a counter suitable for sale, where the pizza maker exposes different kinds of pizza whole or in slices, consumable on site or takeaway. In these cases, the customer, It has the possibility to decide both the type of pizza to buy that quantity, the price can vary depending on the weight or size of the piece of pizza.
In these local, It is often associated with the sale of beverages and food packaged. Often you can find tables and benches where you can have products purchased, but always in self-service.

Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: Pizzerias home

Widespread in big cities, this type of exercise provides for the sale of pizzas delivered to residence. To advertise these activities spread flyers with their menu and prices in the surrounding areas. On account of the pizzas it is often added some € for the costs of delivery. Deliveries are made by the various portapizza circulating on mopeds which are installed special bins that keep the pizzas warm thermos.

Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: Large chains of Fast Food

There are large fast food chains that offer the chance to eat pizza with a lot of speed and ease, which is typical of these local. In Italy the fast food chain most famous pizza is called “Spizzico“, while the United States is one of the largest chains Pizza Hut.

Open a restaurant or why not? a pizzeria in their own home is a trend that is taking more and more foot in Italy, in large cities such as Rome, Milan turin or if there are more than 300 and strong growth, even on the period of crisis we are going through.
It is now 4 the 5 years from the first time I heard of this type of activity. Common people who decided to prepare dinners at home for any guests booked, that at the end of dinner regularly paid a fee for the service received. I always wondered: How strange, restaurateurs and owners of pizzerias to open a club must comply with strict rules and pay taxes cream, how is it that an individual might do so freely?

Profitable pizza restaurant Casa Activities

Finally after a few years, It received a law of the Ministry of Economic Development that puts an end to all this confusion and lack of regulation:
“The Restaurant Casa is considered ACTIVITIES’ ECONOMIC fledged!!!
The resolution says the Mise: Open a restaurant in his home is in an economic activity All checked effects. Must be subject to professional requirements, sanitary and a set of rules in matters of security, urban planning and construction. starting with Scia to be presented to the municipality of residence.
The recent resolution of the Ministry of Economic Development also clarifies how can configure activity cook at home from word of mouth that has come to emerge in a real business, that alarmed even the category of Professional caterers that looking at the phenomenon with concern, They asked that the rules.

Restaurant Pizzeria Casa Activities Profitable

The activity of preparing and serving lunches and dinners at his home , in days dedicated to paying guests, “that can not be classified as an activity of administration of foods and drinks, because even if the products are prepared and served in private premises coincide with the home cook, they are still equipped premises open to customers”, It reads the opinion of the Mise through Gianfrancesco Old, general director of the Directorate General for the Market and competition that responds to a request for a Chamber of Commerce. The provision of these services “It involves the payment of a fee and, therefore also with the innovative mode”, activity “It is expressed as economic activity in the strict sense” consequently it can not be considered, Getting a parere del, “a free activity and therefore not amenable to some provision of law from those applicable to persons who are engaged in the administration of food and beverages”. In motivating the position taken, Gianfrancesco Old refers to a footnote, always your firm, with which it has been classified as an actual administration of the public of foods and drinks that made by the owner of a villa, that “He intended to prepare food and drink in your kitchen providing this service only on specific request and booking by a client and then only for the eventual invited”.
The site Ministry of Economic Development

HACCP certificate. Are many professions today have to do with food. Indeed This area contains a series of activities that follow the entire production, from cultivation to the administration. We speak therefore of farmers, workers in the food industry, confectioners, bartenders, cooks. But not only, Also unexpected categories, as pharmacists and drivers.

All these workers, in one way or another come into contact with food and must therefore know the basic rules of hygiene and food safety. In this case the European regulations and therefore also the Italian, require knowledge of sistema HACCP. Born to ensure food safety for astronauts NASA has since been adopted in many countries, thanks to its proven effectiveness.
To know and apply the rules of HACCP must study them, that is why the law requires that anyone working in the food industry to take a course and obtain the HACCP certificate which proves passing the final test.

HACCP certificate

The HACCP certificate is proof that we have the necessary knowledge about the main rules of hygiene and safety, we know the rules and the application of HACCP, that we have the basics of microbiology and food preservation, and we know how to sanitize a facility and equipment. In short, the certificate serves to prove that we can protect the health of those who come into contact with food that we worked or handled.

Of course this knowledge have different degrees, the manager of the food industry must:
identify all critical points (CCP) the various activities and identify, apply and update safety procedures (based on HACCP principles). Its task is thus of responsibility, that requires a deep understanding of the issues. Instead, for example, the chap who does not manipulate foods must have general knowledge, because his contact with food is never direct, so much so that before the law did not provide even the possession of health card for this category.

Currently the law requires the possession of the mandatory HACCP, without which it is allowed to work in the food industry, so that in all cases it is required as a prerequisite when hiring.