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Neapolitan Pizzeria with a Do-Good Conscience Coming to Southwest Detroit

April 27, 2017, 8:12 AM
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A new Neapolitan-style pizzeria with a social mission is shooting for a spring opening at 4458 W. Vernor Hwy.  

Tom Perkins of Metro Times reports on PizzaPlex:

Co-owner Alessandra Carreon says the store will offer Detroit's only certified authentic Neapolitan pizza, and is obtaining certification for Vera Pizza Napoletana (translating into "True Neapolitan Pizza"). That means pizza that's made with pure ingredients from designated regions of Italy, like San Marzano tomatoes PDO that only can be grown in Mount Vesuvius's foothills. If the pizza is topped with buffalo mozzarella, then it must be mozzarella di bufala campana, which is cheese made with milk from buffalo in the Campania region.

Certification also requires pizza makers to use Tipo 00 flour, a domed wood-burning stove, and adhere to a long list of techniques. (An 11-page list of guidelines that PizzaPlex will follow once it receives certification can be found here.)

Beyond that, PizzaPlex says it's developing an ambitious social mission.

In a release, Carreon wrote, "PizzaPlex hopes to become an open-door community space involved in a number of different social projects, ranging from cooperative labor models to training workshops, performance space for local and young bands, a programming platform for youth and senior citizens alike, green initiatives, responsible waste and impact management strategies, experiments in vertical gardening ‘food is free’ projects, and more."

 

 


Read more:  Metro Times


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