This is what happened to Campanian Giuseppe Acciaio (in the photo), general manager at Gma Import Specialità in Pompei, a company that presents carefully selected products across Europe.

He’s the founder of the Pizzerie Gourmet brand. «The project was born from my need to go back to the true flavours of the old days», which he knows well as he was born in the back shop of a delicatessen. «My intention with Gma was to give continuity to this life concept, especially these days when junk food seems to be dominating more and more».

Together with his sons Luigi, Gilberto and Massimiliano he paired Gma’s excellent products with the GastroPub format, very popular in Campania, and now with Pizzerie Gourmet.

The latter was born with the goal of training pizza chefs in terms of raw materials, dough techniques and pairings, up till the creation of a franchisee restaurant.

Flour has the main role, «it’s no longer the double 0 but a type 1 or 2 which are not whole wheat – says Acciaio – but are whole, respecting the wheat germ [Petra’s Molino Quaglia]. This way we safeguard the nutrient component of the wheat, its taste emerging in terms of aroma and taste. Without forgetting the importance of the ingredients for the topping: red and yellow POD piennolo cherry tomatoes from Vesuvius, POD San Marzano tomatoes and Slow Food Presidium Miracolo di San Gennaro, Corbarini in water and salt or in sauce, papaccelle from Vesuvius, olives from Caiazzo, anchovies from Menaica (Slow Food presidium), tuna and mackerel from Cetara».

The Pizzerie Gourmet format is a success, with people joining from Italy and abroad. You can already find it in London, Geneva, Helsinki and Romania. It is also expected to arrive soon in the US and Spain.

There are two gems, both in Paris: pizzeria Senatore Caffé off the Eiffel Tower and Popine run by the brilliant pizza chef Gennaro Nasti.

New openings are coming up in Italy too: on 24th July in Moncalieri (To) with pizzeria Come era… è, in late September in Salerno with pizzeria Capperi… che pizza!!! and in late October in Milan, the name is still top secret.


Tania Mauri
source: http://newsletter.identitagolose.it/email.php?id=618

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