The Pinsa is the new pizza
One pinseria after the other is opened, and Italian restaurants take the flatbread on the menu: the pinsa are the pastries of the hour. Why actually?
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Sebastiano Burgo, managing director of the La Vita restaurant in Bern, discovered the Pinsa while on vacation in Italy. They have been served in his restaurants for four years. Pizzaiolo Luigi Pizzilli shows how it’s done.
Video: Nicolas Fäs/Nina Kobelt
What exactly is a Pinsa?
A pinsa with figs and ham from the Ristorante La Vita in Bern.
Photo: Raphael Moser
Eine Art Focaccia, in German: a flatbread made with vegetables, meat, Fish or sweets are topped and baked. Invented haben ihn not the old Romans, as is often claimed in pubs, but a cunning one Unentrepreneur namens Corrado Di Marcowho actually sold it near Rome. He registered the brand name Pinsa romana – 20 years ago. And wrote eben the fairy tale of ancient Rome added, namely that the Pinsa a kind of antique fast food and so called because in Latin «to think» Withmash (and pin dough is pressed, we’ll get to that in a moment) hote. That’s right, but the rest are not: «Hor made it all up», he recently announced that I invented everything. But by then the Pinsa was already famous and on top of that emigrated – for example to Switzerland. Exrigens: «Ra random» also sound other related flatbreads like pizza and pita Law similar.
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