Criticized precisely for the salty prices of his pizzas, Flavio Briatore attacked this week the famous Neapolitan pizza. Neapolitan pizza is the mother of all pizzas. Dough, mozzarella, tomato, a few basil leaves (sometimes anchovies or black olives). And that’s all. In the streets of Naples, it is sold for three or four euros in most cases.
A dish with low production costs, therefore, a pillar of popular cuisine anchored in the daily lives of Neapolitans. Since 2017, the art of making Neapolitan, artisanal, traditional pizzas by Neapolitan pizza makers has even been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Quite a symbol, therefore, that the billionaire Flavio Briatore has just compared to a “dough brick with a puddle of tomatoes”. IIt is impossible for the businessman to take €4 pizzas out of an oven that do not correspond to this unflattering description.