Pineapple on pizza is an insult to our great Italian cuisine – and here’s why we secretly love it | Luca Cesari

Of course an Italian chef would rather be sacked than make this. Defending our food against such blasphemy makes us feel like better people Luca Cesari is a food historian and author of The History of Pizza You may have smiled at the news a few days ago: the Italian chef Davide Tamburella was sacked by a Brisbane restaurant after refusing to put pineapple on a pizza. Never mind that Queensland grows almost all of Australia’s pineapples. Tamburella would not give way to his customers or h