Pasquale Cozzolino | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) Naples, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | The pizza diet |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Neapolitan cuisine |
Current restaurant(s)
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Pasquale Cozzolino (born 1977)[ citation needed] is a Neapolitan chef based in New York, specialized in Neapolitan cuisine.
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]
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]
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