Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. One of Italy’s most public food figures, Sorbillo ...

At first glance, Zia Esterina looks like the most average sort of NYC slice joint, with a generic design scheme, slapdash seating (and no counter space for standing), and industrial-size cans of ...

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Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. At Zia Esterina, which also counts locations in Naples and Milan, Sorbillo will ...

In Italy, celebrity chef Gino Sorbillo’s pizza has been blessed by the pope and gobbled up by Mayor de Blasio. In fact, after Sorbillo refused to pay the mob’s so-called “pizzo” tax, one of his ...

Gino Sorbillo is a BFD in Naples, Italy. Just ask Pope Francis, who blessed his pizza, which some say is the best in Italy. But if you ask Sorbillo himself, he doesn’t think pizza making is rocket ...

“Pizza fritta”, the lesser-known cousin of Neapolitan pizza, emerged as a result of poverty amid World War Two and was known as “the pizza of the people”. The first time I met 82-year-old Fernanda ...