Pizza is the subject of many international competitions in Italy. The most recent  was held in April, 2019 and it had a Brazilian in the top 5 best pizza chefs of the World. It seems easy, but not.

The paulistano Marcus Roberto can celebrate, above him, only four chefs – all Italians. He left behind  600 competitors from 42 different countries.

Based in Los Angeles, CA. Chef Marcus, who has just opened his second restaurant, prepared one of those toppings, let’s say, not very Neapolitan. He made a combination of mushrooms with Italian truffle, fresh cream and gold flakes.

Instead of making toppings with Brazilian ingredients like in previous appearances, Roberto used another tactic to be in the top five. He selected Italian ingredients, including Italian truffle. He also created a “scenery” that referred to the forests of the peninsular country and placed a hunter with his truffle hunter dogs as shown in the photo above.