Pasquale Cozzolino
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forThe pizza diet
Culinary career
Cooking styleNeapolitan cuisine
Current restaurant(s)

Pasquale Cozzolino (born 1977) is a Neapolitan chef based in New York, specialized in Neapolitan cuisine.

Early life

Cozzolino was born in Naples. He started learning cooking at the age of 15.[1] He studied at Ippolito Cavalcanti College in Naples, and he was a student of Gaetano Esposito, the great-grandnephew of the inventor of the Neapolitan Margherita Pizza.[2]

Career

He moved to New York in 2011 where he is the owner and chef of a Neapolitan cuisine restaurant.[3][4]

Cozzolino has been the chef for New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio since 2018,[5] and a private chef for U2, Madonna, Muse, Coldplay, Eros Ramazzotti, and Laura Pausini.[6]

He created a diet with pizza, which he experimented on himself. In 2012 he began a diet where he ate a margherita pizza cooked according to the method of Neapolitan cuisine every day for lunch, losing 96 pounds in nine months.[7][8] The concept of the diet is based on the long fermentation period of the yeast (more than 36 hours), which removes almost all the sugars from the dough.[9][10]

He also worked as advisor for a project managed by BeeHex, a startup founded by NASA, to produce pizza with 3D printers. The goal of this technology is to duplicate the original recipe of Neapolitan pizza exactly.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "BOARD MEMBER". nyc. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
  2. ↑ Media, Rennew (2016-10-11). "Chef Pasquale Cozzolino: The Entrepreneurial Pizza Chef". Entrepreneurial Chef. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  3. ↑ Dawsey, Josh (2013-06-05). "Spice of Pizza Life at Ribalta in Greenwich Village". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  4. ↑ Morabito, Greg (2014-01-22). "Masterful Pizza Making With Ribalta's Pasquale Cozzolino". Eater NY. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  5. ↑ "Ho preso per la gola il sindaco di New York". rep.repubblica.it. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  6. ↑ "The Neapolitan Dream Team". iItaly.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  7. ↑ WPVI (2016-02-03). "New York chef says eating pizza helped him lose over 100 pounds". 6abc Philadelphia. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  8. ↑ "How Chef Pasquale Cozzolino Says He Lost 101 Pounds Eating Pizza Every Day". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  9. ↑ Mariani, John. "Ribalta Is as Close to Eating in Naples as you will Find in NYC". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  10. ↑ "Chef Drops Almost 100 Lbs. Eating Pizza Everyday". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  11. ↑ Garfield, Leanna. "This robot can 3D-print and bake a pizza in six minutes". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  12. ↑ "How can a 3D-printed pizza change the world?". www.fastcasual.com. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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