Pizza Hero

Gabriele Bonci accompanies us on a rediscovery of the tradition of the white art: basic raw materials, ingredients, techniques and suggestions for a dough and leavening like a master.
For Gabriele Bonci, the job of ‘baker’, pizza maker and restaurateur is a very serious business: a visceral passion, a vocation, a philosophy to be shared. The customers who enjoy his specialities in the outlets in Rome and around the world, where Bonci proposes new recipes and new combinations every day, know this well. With one mission: to always innovate, to keep alive and ennoble the products of our gastronomic tradition. And sometimes innovation also means recovering ancient ingredients and flavours that have been lost in the course of time… In short, pizza and bread become a vehicle to convey a broader discourse on naturalness, authenticity, ethics and sustainability. It is with this spirit that Maestro Bonci embarked on the Pizza Hero adventure, in search of the ‘hidden heroes’ of the world of bread-making and the white art throughout Italy, offering his precious advice and discovering together the secrets and excellence of each territory. And the same spirit animates the pages of this book, in which he invites us to espouse his values and literally put our hands in the dough. With his advice on the choice of raw materials and his safe guidance in the technical steps, even at home you can achieve delicious and surprising results. To celebrate this journey through Italy, a bread recipe and a pizza recipe are dedicated to each region, all to be tried and shared with the people you love.