Pasquale Cozzolino

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

Pasquale Cozzolino
Born1977 (age 42–43)
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forThe pizza diet
Culinary career
Cooking styleNeapolitan cuisine

Career

Cozzolino 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-grand- nephew of the inventor of the Neapolitan Margherita Pizza.[2]

He moved to New York in 2011[3] where he is the owner and chef of a Neapolitan cuisine restaurant.[4][5]

Cozzolino has been the chef for New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio since 2018,[6] and a private chef for singers including U2, Madonna, Muse, Coldplay, Eros Ramazzotti, and Laura Pausini.[7]

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.[3][8][9] 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.[10][11]

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.[12][13]

References
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  6. "Ho preso per la gola il sindaco di New York". rep.repubblica.it. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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  8. WPVI (2016-02-03). "New York chef says eating pizza helped him lose over 100 pounds". 6abc Philadelphia. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  9. News, A. B. C. "How Chef Pasquale Cozzolino Says He Lost 101 Pounds Eating Pizza Every Day". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  10. Mariani, John. "Ribalta Is as Close to Eating in Naples as you will Find in NYC". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  11. "Chef Drops Almost 100 Lbs. Eating Pizza Everyday". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  12. Garfield, Leanna. "This robot can 3D-print and bake a pizza in six minutes". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  13. "How can a 3D-printed pizza change the world?". www.fastcasual.com. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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