Vancouver's Ignite Pizzeria chef named best traditional pie maker in Canada
Who cares if the story is historically accurate, that Neapolitan Raffaele Esposito invented the modern pizza in 1889 for Queen Margherita of Savoy?
It’s a great story, the three ingredients — tomatoes, mozzarella and basil — representing the tri-coloured Italian flag.
Like Esposito, Vancouver pizza chef Giuseppe Cortinovis was a baker in Italy in his hometown of San Pellegrino, before he moved to Vancouver and on Oct. 15 was crowned the pizza (traditional) king of Canada at the
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