Leave it to the Italians to create a record-breaking pizza. Viva Italia!
The theme for Expo Milano 2015 is “Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life.” Seems like Italy took that rather literally. The maestro’s of Margherita crafted a pie (resembling a saucy slip-n-slide) that officially broke the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest pizza.
The pie, basically a red carpet of rapture, measured out to 1.5 kilometers (5,233 feet) — that’s nearly a mile long. It took the careful attention of sixty pizza makers at the world’s fair to put together all of the doughy, saucy, gooey-cheesy goodness.
Just in case you’re planning on whipping up one of your own, you’ll need over two tons of tomato sauce and half a ton of mozzarella cheese. Oh, and 800 tables for the dough to stretch across and moving ovens to cook it. Not to mention, a lot of friends to share it with. This monster pizza fed 30,000 fair-goers, and a portion was donated to a local food bank.
It just goes to show that as much as we may try here in New York, Italy has and will forever be sovereign of the slice.
Steph is a native New Yorker with a love of culture, creativity, and communications. She’s a foodie, nutrition junkie, yogi, wine-lover, bookworm, world traveler, style-addict, and people person. She also runs her event planning company, Orchard + Broome.
