Pasquale Cozzolino

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Pasquale Cozzolino
Born1977 (age 4647)
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forThe pizza diet
Culinary career
Cooking styleNeapolitan cuisine
Current restaurant(s)

Pasquale Cozzolino (born 1977)[ citation needed ] is a Neapolitan chef based in New York, specialized in Neapolitan cuisine.

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Early life

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]

Career

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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