Colombian has been recognized as the best pizza maker in Latin America

The Colombian Eduardo Castro became this Thursday, June 6, 2019 the winner of the first edition of Latin American Pizza Championship, a competition organized at Buenos Aires and this gives the pizza maker the opportunity to participate in the 2020 World Championship in parma (Italy)

The event brought together 36 people in the Argentine capital the Chiefs of eleven the countries, who cooked a total of 126 pizzas to prove their value in different categories gluten free pizza, Pizza In Teglia, In Pala Pizza, Pizza in the manner of each country and Pizza in Cajón Sorpresa.

Eduardo Castro, 41, has already traveled to Italy at 21 to practice server and offer services caterer.

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

The Latin American Pizza Championship took place in Buenos Aires. Chiefs from 11 countries participated. Photo: EFE.

The second position of the championship matched Argentina Brian Aguilar, of the province of Mendoza, while Venezuela Diego Borges took third place, announced in a press release on Association of owners of pizzerias and empanadas houses (Appyce), organizer of the contest.

Argentina, region that loves pizza a lot because of the wave of Italian immigrants arrival in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is the first country to organize a event these characteristics, endorsed by the World Pizza Championship and who ranks your winner at the world meeting in Italy.

The international competition took place this Thursday, but on June 3rd and 4th, the Argentina Championship of Pizza and Empanada, another of the typical foods of the South Country.

The winner of the national tournament was Maximiliano Mieres, a 25 year old man who has been making pizza since he was 15 years old.