Chef's Table: Pizza plot
Discover the best pizzas worldwide prepared by hardworking, renowned chefs who bake each pizza with passion and creativity. The tour kicks off in Phoenix with Chris Bianco (Pizzeria Bianco), who has taken pizza to the next level in the United States. Next, we meet third-generation pizza maker Franco Pepe in Caiazzo, Italy (Pepe in Grani), who has “dough in his DNA” and has reinvented the margherita; Sarah Minnick of Portland, Oregon (Lovely's Fifty Fifty), who garnishes her acclaimed creations with edible flowers and summer produce offered at the farmers' market; Gabriel Bonci of Rome (Bonci Pizzarium), who revolutionized Roman-style pizza and is referred to as "the Michelangelo of pizza"; Ann Kim of Minneapolis (Pizzeria Lola), an Ivy League-educated actress turned pizza maker, calling her famous creations "loud, bold, and spicy"; and Kyoto's Yoshihiro Imai (monk), acclaimed for his farm-fresh pizzas with mackerel and shiitake mushrooms.