Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Voyage au centre de la Pizza (9):
Pizza romana
This week-end we've been visiting Rome, so it's finally time to update my brief compendium about pizza.
And finally, after two episodes (I, II) talking about not Italian pizzas, I can finally talk about a real one!
So...
Pizza in Rome is pretty different from the usual Napoletan pizza.
Its round pie is very thin and crusty, much more than its sister from Naples.
The dough is made by wheat flour, water, yeast, olive oil and salt (so not other American crap such as vegetable oil or high proteinic content flour) mixed together to give a very hard and steady dough.
One of the most tipical kind of pizza you can find in Rome is the so called pizza Napoli, guarnished with tomato, mozzarella and anchovies. The funny thing is that this kind of pizza is called pizza romana elsewhere in Italy, but not in Rome.
Then of course you can find all kind of toppings on you pizza.
Honourable mention the pizza al taglio.
This is pizza cooked in rectangular metal pans and sold in square slices.
The dough of this kind of pizza is usually more watery so to resist longer and not to become dry, and to be also re-warmed up without loosing any taste.
The pizza al taglio is actually sold all over around Italy (and nosonly) but in Rome it's very particular.
It's in fact prepared with the usual crunchy roman dough that makes it very tasty, with a thin ciabatta-like shape.
It's then usually sold by weight and not by slice.
So then, after two years in Holland I really enjoyed a (couple of) real good pizza.
And the pizza in Rome was pretty good indeed, even if I probably preferred the one al taglio.
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2 comments:
I'd like to make you notice a part in this week "dutch pop of the week".
The song is basically the story of two guys, a shy nerd one and of a cool stupid one, that would like just for one day not to be themselves but the other one.
There is a clearly understandable sentence in which the cool guy sings:
"Ik ben altijd maar de macho, de latino, de De Niro"
which means
"I've always been the macho, the latino, the de niro"!!!!!!!!!!
btw I like this song.
Per la prossima puntata dobbiamo aspettare un meeting a Napoli? Dove sapremo come fanno la pizza "triestina": con crauti, cragno, senape...
Concordo comunque che la pizza al taglio romana è stupenda!
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