The patron saint of Neapolitan pies is Sophia Loren, who grew up just outside the city. Her canonization was propelled by the 1954 movieL’Oro di Napoli(The Gold of Naples), in which she played a seller ofpizza fritta, deep-fried half-moon pockets stuffed with ricotta and crispy bits of...
“The curious fact is that it doesn’t look like pizza at all,” says Errante about pizza fritta.“The dough is usually stretched similarly to a regular pizza base, then all the ingredients your heart desires go in the middle of that base.” Sometimes it comes as a rounded pocket, fol...
The solution was to fry the pizza dough, with ricotta and pork fat tucked inside, for a puffier and more substantial effect. “The curious fact is that it doesn’t look like pizza at all,” says Errante aboutpizza fritta. “The dough is usually stretched similarly to a regular pizza bas...