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Rosa Casulli PIZZERIA MCROSE IN PUTIGNANO, BARI
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Since 2000 she and her family have owned the McRose pizzeria in Putignano, a city of about 30,000 inhabitants which is part of the metropolitan area of Bari and is famous for the textile industry and Carnival. Rosa is an important professional in the world of pizzerias. Trained at the Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli - where she teaches - and "in the field" with varied work experience, she has contemporarily won various prizes in the World Pizza Championship, ranking several times in the top ten and becoming World Champion in 2008 with the “0 kilometer” pizza, rich in products from its Apulian land. “Since I was a child, I have always had a passion for cooking, dough and above all for desserts - Rosa tells us. I have always dreamed of having my own business in which to channel my passion and finally in the year 2000 the opportunity arose: with the support of my husband we decided to start a restaurant business and invest in ourselves. We mainly wanted to sell sandwiches, pizza by the slice, round pizzas, various appetisers, but from day one customers preferred the classic round pizza, and we specialised accordingly. “Ours is a simple place, where you can sit down to have a quick meal.
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Very often the thought of fast is associated with the concept of poor quality, but this is not the case for us; everything is done with care, from the choice of raw materials to the doughs to production. We have been using sourdough for the classic pizza for almost 15 years now, we have been self-producing sandwiches and wraps, we use many fresh seasonal ingredients, dairy products of excellent quality, being able to count on a territory rich in excellence: so, as far as possible, we choose Zero Kilometre or a short supply chain. With this mindset and to take another step forward in our philosophy, in April 2020 we joined a great initiative by renting a vegetable garden: so, some of the vegetables we offer are produced without the use of any artificial pesticide or fertilizer but only with manure."
