Naples Celebrates as Its Pizza Makers Conquer the World
NAPLES — Above the throng shoving its way along Via dei Tribunali, this pizza-crazed city’s historic pizza thoroughfare, Antonio Borrelli leaned over the fake lemons hanging from the “Balcony of Song” above Antica Pizzeria Gino Sorbillo and dared sing something else.
“The pizza!” the crowd screamed in protest.
“The pizza. O.K., O.K., O.K. Give me a second,” Mr. Borrelli, a local crooning attraction, said on Friday as he switched the track on his sound machine, gripped the microphone and, with an intro of “Everybody, here we go again,” sang: “But you wanted the pizza. The pizza. The pizza. With the tomato sauce on top. With the tomato sauce on top.”
The delighted crowd sang along with Mr. Borelli in Neapolitan dialect, and then lost its collective marbles when he pointed out that the celebrity pizza maker Gino Sorbillo had stepped out of the restaurant and onto the street.
Naples was in the throes of a citywide pizza party.
News had come from far away, on the South Korean island of Jeju, that Unesco’s Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage put the roughly 3,000 pizza makers, or pizzaiuoli, of Naples on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (“The art of Neapolitan pizzaiuoli is Intangible Heritage of Humanity!” tweeted the Italian culture minister, Dario Franceschini.)>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/world/europe/naples-pizza-unesco.html?
