Neapolitans to the Rescue

I thought I would beat Jennifer to the punch with a food posting. Of course, it's more than just about food. It's about standards, and tradition, and what the heck you mean when you say the word "pizza".

Italian pizza makers, politicians and the modern-day proletariat had set aside a century's worth of squabbling over tomatoes, basil, cheese and oil to focus on a larger topic that threatened them all: Neapolitan pizza was under attack, facing impostors worldwide.

As one local pizza maker, Alfonso Cucciniello, put it: "Everyone in the world is trying to do this type of pizza. In Japan, in China, in the United States, in Miami."

"Pizza with pineapples?" he asked. "That's a cake."

You tell'em, Alfons! Hit em' again! You are the thin line between civilization and anarchy.