Pizza. Valentine’s Pizza.
Virgil:
February 14th, 2007
After winning a charity auction, Italian man Maurizio Morelli has had chef-extraordinaire Domenico Crolla from Glasgow fly over 1000 miles to make him a pizza. But this was not just any pizza. This was not just the best pizza that Crolla had ever made. This was the Pizza Royale 007, an excessive 12 inch gourmet feast, made on prime organic Italian bread, with sunblush tomato sauce, smoked salmon, venison, champagne-soaked caviar, lobster marinated in the finest cognac, and even topped with lashings of edible gold. It was the most expensive pizza ever baked, standing at the equivalent of £2150. Morelli had won the prize on eBay, and was now preparing it as a surprise for his wife. In his own words, “We Italians are experts at ‘amore’ and I think this pizza will show that the way to a woman’s heart is definitely through her stomach.” Hopefully Mrs Morelli enjoyed the luxurious treat, and with any luck I’m sure Maurizio got a few slices too!
March 15th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
[…] I never thought that pizzas were supposed to be a delicacy. OK so sometimes they do taste pretty divine and feel like a luxury, but that’s only really for those trying to lose weight or students who are strapped for cash. Did I say strapped for cash? Well, how about a pizza costing $1000?! This is the latest in the line-up of expensive pizzas, a previous one being a £2000 Valentine’s pizza blogged about by my iblog colleague Virgil. It cannot be a coincidence that in the space of a few weeks there is another ridiculously expensive pizza and I do wonder about this strange new trend. The $1000 pizza, which is currently being served as a swish New York restaurant, is (naturally) topped with four different kinds of caviar and lobster. You can see it being made here. Hmmm…looks just like a normal pizza to me I’m afraid. But I guess the chef’s not at all biased when he says it is “worth every penny”. […]