Pasquale Cozzolino (born 1977) is a Neapolitan

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based in New York, specialized in

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Early life

Cozzolino was born in

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. He started learning cooking at the age of 15. He studied at Ippolito Cavalcanti College in

, and he was a student of

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, the great-grandnephew of the inventor of the Neapolitan Margherita Pizza.

Career

He moved to

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in 2011 where he is the owner and chef of a Neapolitan cuisine restaurant. Cozzolino has been the chef for

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since 2018, and a private chef for U2,

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, and

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. 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. The concept of the diet is based on the long

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period of the yeast (more than 36 hours), which removes almost all the sugars from the dough. He also worked as

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for a project managed by BeeHex, a startup founded by

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, to produce pizza with

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. The goal of this technology is to duplicate the original recipe of Neapolitan pizza exactly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cozzolino, Pasquale Italian chefs Chefs of Italian cuisine Pizza in New York City 1977 births Living people Date of birth not in Wikidata