It is never too early in the day for making and eating pizza, as the 10 teams taking part in the 2006 Property Chef of the Year recently found out.
At precisely 10.10am, the first slices of margarita prepared by the teams were being wolfed down in this year’s competition, which is co-sponsored by David Coffer Lyons and Estates Gazette.
Pizza making was one of the three rounds in the event, which sought to find the best chefs in the property industry. Having taken over Strada restaurant in London’s New Burlington Street, the teams had to taste and identify six Italian wines, under the watchful eye of Ben Llewelyn of wine company Grape Juice. Then they tackled a quiz on the fine points of Italian cuisine, which included the following question: to which pasta did Sophia Loren owe everything she had? (The answer is spaghetti.)
At the pizza-making cook-off, in which the top three contestants, based on their performance in the previous rounds, could choose the ingredients for their own pizzas, Strada’s head chef, Angelo Gerofalo, judged that Sebastian Howard and David McCosh had made the best Italian pie.
Hoisting their bottle of Taittinger aloft in triumph, the pair seemingly had a career in front of a wood-burning oven waiting for them.
See EG Leisure, p80
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Winners Sebastian Howard and David McCosh, Stephen Kane & Co First runners up Adrian Bates, Christie & Co and Dave Allen, Estates Gazette Second runners up Steve Bagatti and Ted Schama, Shelley Sandzer Other contestants Anthony Alder and Will Longhurst, AG&G; Adrian Saunders and Dan Gazzard, Cushman & Wakefield;Josh Leon and Jonathan Moradoff, Davis Coffer Lyons; David Muslin and Alice Baker, Dunlop Haywards Leisure; Claire Hopkins and Piers Wehner, Estates Gazette; Morris Greenberg, Gilmarc and Alex Hill, The Leisure Partnership; Andy McGregor, Savills |
