23-02-2017
Sarah Minnick at the counter at Lovely's Fifty Fifty, her pizzeria (and gelateria) in Portland, Oregon
During his latest trip to the West Coast, Franco Pepe didn’t just go to Los Angeles, as Nancy Silverton’s guest of honour at Chi spacca. After preparing and baking pizzas the whole day on Sunday 12th February, the pizzaiolo from Caserta, owner of Pepe in grani in Caiazzo, moved to Portland, Oregon. From the sun and palms of the City of Angels, to the woods and rain of a town on the border with Washington State, two rivers, lots of hills, with a nice river port and a pizzeria that was the reason to go.
On Sunday the 5th March in the Auditorium hall at Identità Milano, Pepe will hold a lesson together with pizzaiola and gelatiera Sarah Minnick – at Lovely's fifty fifty the strong points are at the opposite ends of the thermometer, they’re either icy, or are cooked in a wood oven. Hence that 50 and 50 what with gelatos and pizzas.
Sarah Minnick hanged this sign in a corner at Lovely's Fifty Fifty in Portland
What annoys people who have always been living in Portland is the growing popularity among Californians. As they’re richer, they buy land and property making prices rocket and eliminating locals from the market. Sarah speaks of this and of the anger for president Trump’s politics but then she lightens up as soon as she turns to her culinary creations.
Lovely's Fifty Fifty on the day the restaurant is closed
«Four years ago I started to knead and I soon learnt that I really enjoyed making pizzas. I love pizza». And then in mid January she joined Franco Pepe in Caiazzo and then welcomed him at her place a few weeks later. The lesson at Identità is the result of their love for the products offered by the territory surrounding them and of their double journey between the US and Italy, which she’ll replicate by herself on Monday 6th as part of Identità di Pizza.
Under a canopy at Ayers Creek Farm, in Gaston, Oregon. Owner Anthony Boutard fixed two incredible Citroën models that made car history: a DS family car (to the left) and even a Traction Avant
1. To be continued
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
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born in Milan in March 1955, at Il Giornale for 31 years dividing himself between sports and food, since 2004 he's the creator and curator of Identità Golose. blog www.paolomarchi.it instagram instagram.com/oloapmarchi