Roberto Caporuscio ha provato a portare negli Stati Uniti il sapore di Napoli, e la sua storia più autentica. Ma la sua pizza aveva bisogno di un ulteriore elemento per passare l’esame degli appassionati più radicali e intransigenti. “Doveva essere napoletana anche nel prezzo“. E così è nata l’idea: “5 dollari, l’equivalente di quanto spenderesti a Napoli per gustarti una bella margherita, vale a dire 3 euro e 50, massimo 4“, ci spiega mentre si prepara a una nuova giornata di lavoro nella sua famosa pizzeria Kesté a Bleecker Street, New York City.

Fino ad allora aveva lavorato nell’azienda agricola di famiglia a Pontinia, quella parte di Lazio fertile che si affaccia verso la Campania. Roberto si diploma alla scuola per pizzaioli dell’Associazione dei Pizzaiuoli napoletani. Dove si insegna la vera pizza tradizionale napoletana, quella venduta per strada che a Napoli si mangia come in nessun altro posto al mondo. “Ho avuto diversi maestri, pizzaioli famosi, che mi hanno rivelato i loro segreti e da lì sono partito”. Prima di trasferirsi ai Caraibi decide di fare tappa negli Stati Uniti per imparare l’inglese. Trova lavoro in una pizzeria a Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, America profonda, nel 1999, alla vigilia del nuovo Millennio. “Un giorno un italo americano conquistato dalla mia pizza mi propone di mettersi in società e di aprire una pizzeria”. I piani cambiano di nuovo.

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1st Annual New York Pizza Festival
When you think NY, you think pizza. And now there’s a festival dedicated to everyone’s favorite hand-held delight. It’s a national, start-studded, 2-day event show-casing the talents of the most renowned US Pizza Makers, Chefs, culinary personalities, as well as top pizza makers from Italy.  Event Details.

This first ever pizza fest event will be taking place on October 6 and 7 of Columbus Day weekend on Crescent Avenue located parallel to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx’s Little Italy. The event will be hosted by the Belmont Business Improvement District and the Pizza Academy Foundation, and will bring the most renowned pizzaioli, from around the world- including some of the best from New York and even some of the best from Naples, Italy- onto one block to celebrate their craft for the people who live in and around New York.

The New York Pizza Festival: The triangle created by Crescent Avenue, Arthur Avenue, and East 187th Street is the Bronx’s answer to Little Italy, where you can find some of the freshest mozzarella, the thinnest-cut prosciutto, and the most authentic pasticcerie in town. One more reason to head up there from October 6 and 7: Pop-up pizza tents from some of the best pizzerias from Chicago to Naples and everywhere in between, including including New York’s beloved Di Fara and the famed Neapolitan spot Rossopomodoro.

The first annual edition of the festival features over 25 US and Italian pizza masters, among them local favorites like Di Fara Pizza and Zero Otto Nove. The festival will bravely expose New Yorkers to the best pizza of other regions, including North Carolina’s Mission Pizza Napoletana and Connecticut’s Brick + Wood.
This two-day fest is not to be confused with 2017’s New York City Pizza Festival, which left many guests asking for refunds after they had to face long lines and cold slices.
Of course, you can count on plenty of beer and wine to wash it down and live bands to entertain you between slices. Now that’s amore.