NAPLES, ITALY - 8 DECEMBER 2017: A pizzaiuolo (pizza maker) prepares pizzas here at Pizzeria Gino Sorbillo in Naples, Italy, on December 8th 2017.<br />
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On Thursday December 7th 2017, UNESCO added the art of Neapolitan “Pizzaiuolo” to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.<br />
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The art of the Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’ is a culinary practice comprising four different phases relating to the preparation of the dough and its baking in a wood-fired oven, involving a rotatory movement by the baker. The element originates in Naples, the capital of the Campania Region, where about 3,000 Pizzaiuoli now live and perform. Pizzaiuoli are a living link for the communities concerned. There are three primary categories of bearers – the Master Pizzaiuolo, the Pizzaiuolo and the baker – as well as the families in Naples who reproduce the art in their own homes. The element fosters social gatherings and intergenerational exchange, and assumes a character of the spectacular, with the Pizzaiuolo at the centre of their ‘bottega’ sharing their art.<br />
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In Naples, pizza makers celebrated the victory by giving away free pizzas.