Chef Network Recipes: Chef John Franchetti presents the Christmas Pizza

December 25th, 2008 by academia barilla chef

Merry Christmas from Academia Barilla, Italian Food Lovers and, of course, from our guest Chefs at the Italian Food Lovers Chef Network!

Yesterday we introduced a new entry for our Guest Chef Series, Chef John Franchetti, and today he is ready to share with us his first recipe: The Christmas Pizza!

This is a pretty simple recipe that everybody at your Christmas table will love. Chef Franchetti definitely loves pizza - look how happy he looks in the picture below, while he’s eating a pizza in the street of Naples on a Vespa! Forget gourmet! Just keep it simple, like today’s recipe!


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A new Guest Chef for the Italian Food Lovers Chef Network: Chef John Franchetti

December 24th, 2008 by academia barilla chef

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The Italian Food Lovers Chef Network keeps growing, and today we are proud to introduce a new Guest Chef: Chef John Franchetti from Rosso Pizzeria and Wine Bar in Santa Rosa, California.

We had an email chat with John in California and learned a few things about hisChef experience and insight, that started in 1981, when John met the American celebrity Chef, restaurateur, television personality and cookbook author Chef Emeril Lagasse, really liked what he was doing, and decided he was going to follow the same path into a gourmet Chef career.
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