{"id":10343,"date":"2026-03-31T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:13:11","slug":"mirko-dagata-wins-pizza-maker-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/mirko-dagata-wins-pizza-maker-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirko D\u2019Agata Wins Pizza Maker of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pizzatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pizza Today<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Mirko D\u2019Agata of Pizzeria No. 900 in Montreal, emerged as Pizza Maker of the Year in the 2026 International Pizza Challenge. Competing against other first-place winners in IPC divisions, D\u2019Agata won the competition\u2019s most prestigious category with a pan pizza, despite his pizzeria\u2019s specialty in Neapolitan pies.<br><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1214\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mirko-PMOTY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10348\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Josh Keown\/Pizza Today<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/pizzatoday.com\/news\/international-pizza-challenge-2026-daily-results\/616880\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal chefs win top honours at this International challenge, earning multiple world titles at the industry\u2019s biggest competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mirko-PMOTY-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10350,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}