Take a trip back in time to an Italian Village where pizzas are created from dough (made from scratch each morning), fresh mozzarella cheese, hand-picked basil, ripe tomatoes, rich Italian olive oil, and baked in an original Stefano Ferrara Neapolitan handmade brick wood-fired oven to a blistering 800 degrees…..cooking in 90 seconds! Duca’s Pizza brings to you this centuries-old technique Neapolit
an masters use to create a truly authentic Neapolitan pizza. Neapolitan Tradition
In June of 1984, the Italian government established a designation for pizzerias that met strict requirements that respect the tradition of the art of Neapolitan pizza making. The Neapolitan pizza is cooked in firewood ovens with the temperature of 800°F required for an authentic Neapolitan pizza, uniformly cooked in 90 seconds. Stefano Ferrara wood-fired ovens are built by hand, brick by brick, as in old Neapolitan tradition, without using any prefabricated pieces. The crust is made by hand, fresh daily with flour, salt, water, and wild yeast. The sauce is hand-crushed tomatoes. Then, all pies are topped with freshly sliced mozzarella and a drizzle of Italian olive oil. The completed pies are baked in a wood-burning oven and cooked in approximately 90 seconds. Coming hot from the ovens, the crust is characteristically soft and chewy, with a little char from the intense heat. In Naples, pizza is always eaten with a knife and fork, but we’re happy to slice it for you! The History of Pizza
The original pizza was created in Naples, Italy, around 1600AD by bakers who needed to feed the masses in a tasty and cost-effective manner. They created a simple snack sold by street vendors using simple, readily available ingredients such as dough and tomatoes. Later, cheese was added, and pizza as we know it was born. In 1889, Queen Margherita (of the newly established Savoy dynasty) visited Naples. Having heard of the city’s famous peasant food, she was curious to taste it. Don Raffaele, the city’s most famous cook, was invited to prepare the dish for the Queen. Three pizzas were presented to show the typical choices: one with cheese and basil, one with garlic, oil, and tomato, and one with mozzarella, basil, and tomato. The queen, impressed by the colors of the last pizza, which resembled the national flag's red, green, and white, named it Margherita Pizza. With royal approval secured, the Margherita Pizza became the established modern pizza. To this day, the dish has never lost its status, becoming a cultural and even international icon over the years.
