As I was researching (some prefer to say wikipedia) the origins of Pizza, I stumbled across the valiant efforts of an organisation known as Vera Pizza Napoletana (VPN) , or the Real Neopolitan Pizza Association. Obviously, they are non-profit and their goal is to preserve the ‘authenticity’ of restaurant pizza recipes around the world, and they do this by flying around the world, visiting restaurants either to rubber stamp or to reject pizzas. These guys have created a set of hardcore guidelines which only recognises Magherita and Marinara as true Neopolitan pizzas. They even have a very specific description of what the real thing ought to taste like, and I quote: (The pizza)… should be soft, elastic, easy to manipulate and fold…. Talk about Pizza police eh, I wonder if there are any VPN certified doughs in London… Franco
Cast your mind back a couple of years ago and the emergence of the gourmet burger in this country, particularly London. I contributed my two pennies with a burger shoot-out of my own last year, pitching some of the well regarded burger bars against one another. Since then, the momentum for sleek burgers have subsided.
I can only ever focus on one thing at any given chunk of time, everything else seems to just be neglected in the process. Take photography for instance. At the moment, my leisure time consists mainly of stealth street corner hugging, punctuated by fleeting moments of inspiration. I’m so totally engrossed in ‘deciding the moment’ that I don’t even care if passerbys give me stern looks anymore…call me Kang Winogrand. And that’s why the bank holiday is a real godsend – that’s twenty four extra hours of Me time to go through my safari bookmarks, like this London steak club for example
I’m excited to continue to have my guest posts kindly accepted by fellow food bloggers. This one goes out to a very dear foodie pal of mine – Jessie over at The Hungry Mouse , I’ve known her and followed her blog since my early days and she’s been an inspiration to me over the past few months. The Hungry mouse is the definitive visual guide to good cooking, she’s got a unique approach to recipes in the detailed pictures of everything she cooks from conception to plate up. It’s great for people like me who eat alot but are a mess in the kitchen! You’ll notice I reference some of her recipes in my stuff sometimes and my favourite so far is still her deep fried ravioli recipe. Simply brilliant! Her blog has gone through a redesign recently and it now looks slicker than ever, I am loving the rotating popular posts thingie. The guest post is a photo tour around the food market in King’s road, bit overdue really as these were taken in last summer’s sunshine, hope you folks enjoy it as much as I had fun writing it!
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