: Duo Quit Jobs to Bring Italy’s Centuries-Old Pizza to Mumbai, Earn Rs 24 Lakh/Year #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs The story goes that in 1889, a baker by the name of Raffaele Esposito visited the

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Duo Quit Jobs to Bring Italy’s Centuries-Old Pizza to Mumbai, Earn Rs 24 Lakh/Year #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs
The story goes that in 1889, a baker by the name of Raffaele Esposito visited the quaint town of Naples, Italy, and wanted to pay tribute to the royals and the recent unification of the region.  



So he decided to craft a pizza for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy in the colours of the Italian flag — tomatoes for red, mozzarella for white, and basil leaves for green.  



Centuries later, this UNESCO-certified dish is arguably among the most coveted varieties of pizza, “as soft and floppy as a basset hound’s ears??? and as delicious as it is intricate to make.  



And it was this history that Ankith Suresh, a chef from Navi Mumbai, found himself fascinated with when he was working at a 5-star hotel during the 2020 COVID lockdown.  



Having spent a major part of his life in the food industry, Ankith was no novice to cooking, but had never tried his hand at pizzas. “The art of making pizzas and getting creative fascinated me. And more so when I watched the videos of the Neapolitan pizza being made. I realised that the pizza culture in India is very different from the one that exists abroad,??? he says.  



Ankith Suresh and Priyanka Mandal, Picture credits: Ankith Suresh


This realisation was followed with a thought — “What if we were to create these Neapolitan pizzas in Mumbai

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