2015 marked the 126th anniversary of the Margherita pizza. In honor of this, a team of Italian pizza chefs assembled during the Milan World Fair to reclaim the world record for the longest pizza ever cooked. It took sixty chefs working for a full eighteen hours with 1.5 tons of mozzarella cheese and two tons of tomato sauce. They cooked it with a wheeled broiler oven, which was slowly pushed along the length of the pizza, baking as it went. The final product was a titanic, rectangular pie that measured 1.59545 kilometers, or nearly a mile long, and weighed about five tons. This roundly beat the 1.1415 kilometer pie made by the previous record holders from Spain.
Once finished, the pizza was cut into over thirty-five thousand pieces to serve to fairgoers, free of charge. The over three hundred leftover meters of pizza were donated to a food bank known as Banco Alimentare.
You may never see a pizza quite as prodigiously large at our Bothell Italian restaurant, but you can still get the large and satisfying taste of real Italian cuisine. Come and try out one of our pizzas or other Italian favorites tonight at Amaro Bistro!