Pizza Margherita

THERE is a restaurant in Naples called Da Michele, one of the oldest pizza houses, where they only bake two types of pizza. Neapolitan and Pizza Margherita, and they are jam-packed, making pizzas non-stop, all day long.

Fabulous, beautiful flavours. I have never had a Margherita or a Neapolitan anywhere in the world which tastes anything like it. It is distinctly, completely, a Neapolitan activity. We can only try to emulate it, we can never do more than that.

140 g (5oz) basic pizza dough