Just to tease the proverbial, friendly competition with our cousins the other side of the Alps, they now also beat us in a record we would think could only belong to us (at least in Europe, since the largest world consumers are the Americans).

Instead, according to a yearly research on the pizza market by the Gira Conseil institute, the French beat us with 809 millions pizzas in 2014 (especially margherita and quattro formaggi, the research notes) that is to say around 5 kilos per person, +1.20% versus 2013.

According to Fipe instead (see the news below) in Italy in 2014 600 million pizzas were served, even though this number only refers to pizza with waiter service and doesn’t include take away ones while the French study includes all “distribution channels”.

In any case, the French will have to fight on the occasion of the second edition of Cultur-al, the festival of Italian food culture scheduled in Paris from April 25th till the 27th, which has, among its Premium Sponsors, Petra flour too.

Among the many Italian guests there will be pizzaiolo Simone Padoan, baker Martino Faccin and chef Vitantonio Lombardo, all of whom were among the protagonists of Identità di Pane e Pizza in the Milanese congress in 2015. 

(Illustration by Chudomir Tsankov)

Luciana Squadrilli
source: http://newsletter.identitagolose.it/email.php?id=505

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