A Colombian is the best pizza maker in Latin America

| June 06, 2019 – 7:11 pm

Represent the region at the World Championship next year in Italy.

Colombian Eduardo Castro became the winner of the first Latin American Pizza Championship on Thursday, a competition in Buenos Aires that gives the pizza maker the opportunity to compete in the 2020 World Championship in Parma, Italy.

The event brought together 36 chefs from eleven countries of the Argentine capital, who prepared 126 pizzas to demonstrate their value in the different categories of gluten-free pizzas, teglia pizzas, pizza pies, pizzas in the style of every country and pizzas. to "Cajón Sorpresa".

Eduardo Castro, 41, has already traveled to Italy at the age of 21 to work as a waiter and offer catering services.

In a restaurant in the city of Rimini, he met the chef Davide Amaduzzi and, ten years after arriving in the country of origin of the pizza, he returned to Colombia to open his first restaurant, a company that today counts seven pizzerias.

Second place in the championship is Argentina's Brian Aguilar of Mendoza province, while Venezuelan Diego Borges took third place, announced in a press release the Association of Pizzerias Owners and of houses of Empanadas (APPYCE), organizer of the contest.

Argentina, a region with a penchant for pizza by the wave of Italian immigrants arriving in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is the first country to organize an event of this type, approved by the World Pizza Championship and who ranks his winner. at the world meeting in Italy.

The international competition took place on Thursday, when the Argentinean Pizza and Empanada Championships were held, another typical southern dish.

The winner of the national tournament is Maximiliano Mieres, a 25-year-old man who has been making pizzas since the age of 15.