Un'Americana In Italia, Part 2, by Sky Dylan Robbins

Here is the second installment of Un'Americana In Italia.

Sky explains that Italy gave the world the very first chocolate bar.In the 1616th Century, she explains, all of the chocolate was imported from Spain. The chocolate was used for drinking.

However the Italians invented a machine that was able to turn chocolate from a liquid to a solid chocolate bar.

"Chocolate is the joy of life!"

Not any chocolate, mind you: dark chocolate.

Sky then takes us on an incredible cheese adventure.

Enjoy this Un'Americana In Italia, Part 2


I love listening to Sky speak in Italian.

The words just seem to flow. The fact this film is totally narrarated in Italian adds much to the experience.

Here is a link where you can listen to (and download, if you wish) an interview I did with Sky.

Sky Dylan Robbins Interview by Albert Grande of Pizza Therapy


Sky takes you inside the underground secrets of how various food is produced. She also reveals the passions of those who create these amazing foods.

Food for Sky is magical. She celebrates the creation of food. She celebrates the consumption of food. Eating and sharing food together is an event that deserves to be celebrated.

Get some Italian chocolate, here:


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Albert Grande
The Pizza Promoter
and Pizza Therapy Digital Store Owner

Anthony Bourdain in Venice Eating Seafood Risotto...

Anthony Bourdain is my hero.

He travels around the world, eating the best food each country has to offer.

He then comments on all he has eaten.

What kind of job is that? Well it's a job that is really not a job.

Until I get one of those gigs, I guess I'll keep my
day job.

and I'll continue to watch, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations.

Here he is in Venice, Italy. Check out the specatcular seafood!





I love each and everyone of his shows. He is a character who is simply amazing...and believe me: Bourdain is quite a character.




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A Pizza Tale: from Hawaii to Italy and Back

As you know, I'm a pizzaman. I love making pizza, I love eating pizza and I love talking about pizza... (Here is my website: Pizza Therapy).

This is one of my favorite pizza tales I have ever experienced. Best of all, this extraordinary pizza conversation, had a Hawaii twist.

I happened to be at a Workshop recently and during lunch my favorite topic, pizza, just happened to come up.

Janet, who grew up in Hawaii, in a Japanese-American household, shared the following:

"One night, many years ago, my Dad and Mom decided to take us kids out for pizza. As soon as my Dad tasted the pizza, he said: "This is not real pizza...Now when I was in Italy during the Second World War, that was real pizza..."

(Albert's side bar; So here goes: a pizza tale, with-in a pizza tale...)

Her father, who had never been out of Hawaii, was stationed in a small Italian town during World War II. They were camped on a farmer's fields for several weeks. He decided to go for a walk to explore the farm.

The farmer became alarmed, when he noticed this stranger walking around his fields.

"Why" he thought, "was this strange Japanese man, walking around my fields?"

He immediately went to get a rifle. He then confronted this man pointing his rifle at him. The farmer soon realized, this Japanese man, was an American. He was a liberator and not a threat to him or his family.

After a while, the Italian farmer and this Japanese man from Hawaii, became friends.

One day the Serviceman was relieving himself near a stream and he noticed something in the water. He went to ask the farmer what he had seen.

The farmer told him, they were eels. Janet's father was elated. He and his buddies were sick of K-Rations! Now they could feast on fresh eels! The other soldiers from Hawaii rigged some nets together and that night, they had an incredible meal of fresh eels, cooked right in their helmets!

The farmer then shared another secret with him. He said there were wild mushrooms growing right on the farm. The farmer taught him which mushrooms were safe to pick. Soon, their "eel and mushroom dinners" were the talk of the camp.

A short while later, his company had to leave. There was after all, a War going on. Before he left, the farmer invited him to his house for a meal. There, he tasted fresh, home-made pizza, for the first time. The memory of that pizza would never leave him."

I thanked Janet immensely. I asked her if I could meet her dad, but she explained, he had passed away years before.

The tale made me think of my own father, who although born in the U.S., had loved to eat eels. He would regularly take us out to his secret spots to search for wild mushrooms. The love of this food had been passed on to him by his own father, who had been raised on a farm in Italy. And so it goes...

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Italian Food in the U.K.

Hey you gotta love those Brits. They are into everything including pizza and Italian Food. Recently I discovered the residents of Great Britain love any kind of Italian Food.

For example, Chef Dominico Crolla, of Glasgow, Scotland is a master of Italian cuisine. This guy is an extraordinary pizzaiolo. You can read about some of his exploits in this issue of Pizza News.

OK, so now I know residents of Great Britain have incredible resources to get all kinds of incredible Italian pasta, snacks, sausages and and all manner of everything Italian.

Now, you know too. Enjoy this fantastic video which includes a visual delight and adventure of Italian food products. This video made my mouth water. I got weak in the knees. Hey, it made me hungry!






I'll see you in pizzaland.

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Pizza Contest: A Taste of Your Town

Strike up the band. Roll out your dough. Crank up that pizza oven! Get fired up.

We have a Taste of Your Town coming to you! I am excited to announce Bolla Wines is sponsoring the most incredible pizza contest, ever.

This isn't some Mickey Mouse pizza contest, this is the real deal (Sorry, Mickey).

Here is part of the official word:

"Starting February 1, 2008, pizza lovers 21 years of age and older will be encouraged to scour their local farmer markets, backyard gardens and pantries for ingredients which best represent their region. They can then submit recipes and a corresponding Bolla wine pairing to Bolla’s site

Read more about the contest at this link:
http://pizzatherapy.com/tasteofyourtown.htm

The top winner from each region (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, Far West) will receive a Bolla pizza kit including a pizza oven and move on to compete for the grand prize trip to Europe. Contestants are encouraged to use local ingredients in the crust, sauce and topping. Entries will be judged on creativity, taste, and its ability to pair well with a Bolla varietal. The best of each region will be selected at the end of September and a grand prize winner will be decided via an online vote October, National Pizza Month."

Here is what I like: the pizzas will be regional in that the contest encourages you to use produce and specialty foods from your own area. What could possibly be better than that?

So what are you waiting for? Start creating some original pizzas. Who knows, we could be talking the best pizza in the world, here.

Get those recipes submitted. And I'll see you in Italy...

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