Italiano
Pizza in Naples has always been more than a traditional food. Actually, it is almost a primary good, just like water or clothes.
Proof of this is the initiative that took off immediately after the Second World War: the pizza oggi a otto (literally “eight from today“).
Maimed veterans, orphans and widows, unemployed and homeless crowded among the neighborhoods destroyed by the bombings. In short, the common denominator was poverty.
But no calamity can ever prevent a Neapolitan from enjoying his pizza.
So, the street vendors sold the pizzas (by the slice, baked or fried) with the formula of “eight from today“: take it now and pay in exactly one week (counting the day of today as the first) .
A sort of “microcredit” that allowed everyone not to deprive themselves of Neapolitan food “par excellence”!
And in the collage hereby you can admire a dough left to rise in the Inox Bim retarder proofer, and an inviting (to say the least) real Neapolitan pizza!
The photos were sent to us by our friends at NastiEat, from Nocera Inferiore (not far from Naples).
Some true pizza artists, as you can see!
