{"id":6283,"date":"2023-05-24T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2023-05-24T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:56:02","slug":"the-german-couple-who-moved-to-italy-and-opened-a-pizza-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/24\/the-german-couple-who-moved-to-italy-and-opened-a-pizza-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"The German couple who moved to Italy and opened a pizza restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>CNN&nbsp;\u2014<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Living la dolce vita in Italy isn\u2019t just about snatching a cheap dwelling in a charming rural village. It also requires lazing around, soaking in the sun, and indulging in great food and wine.<\/p><p>It can also be a job like making pizza \u2013 albeit the German way.<\/p><p>While many foreigners flocking to Italy to live the idyll crave the Bel Paese\u2019s beauty, scenery and peacefulness, one couple from Munich had a different dream: serving an iconic Italian food to locals.<\/p><p>It\u2019s no easy task. Making pizza in Italy and satisfying Italian palates is not the simplest of missions.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-4-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><sub>The town only has the pizzeria and one restaurant open year-round<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Thomas Hartke and Irene Horbrand, both in their 60s, run A Teira, the only pizzeria open year-round in the rural village of Airole, in Liguria. Barely 450 people live here; 150 of them are foreigners.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>What started off as a vacation nearly 50 years ago turned into a new life full of unexpected culinary achievements.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paragraph-2e5f3d80-f109-fd41-e0ae-05fe5c6575d5\">Kebab pizzas and sauerkraut pie<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-107x60.jpg 107w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><sup>Their inventive toppings include mushroom and garlic.Marco Molinari<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Paying homage to her Germanic origins she makes pizza with sauerkraut, sausages and veal shin, with tomato salad, pizza kebabs, pizza with goat cheese and pizza with salmon \u2013 the latter being the most wanted by clients.<\/p><p>Irene, a former fur designer, had never made a pizza before deciding that was what she and her husband were going to do in Airole. Practically overnight she learned how on a crash course in Germany run by a Neapolitan&nbsp;<em>pizzaiolo<\/em>.<\/p><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\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/airole-liguria-german-pizzeria?fbclid=IwAR0wXRSV09t5AC7DKvPBYfoz5ndpxlEajXrAG6wB2PM4E97hlgiP_luifUk\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living la dolce vita in Italy isn\u2019t just about snatching a cheap dwelling in a charming rural village. It also requires lazing around, soaking in the sun, and indulging in great food and wine. It can also be a job like making pizza \u2013 albeit the German way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1374,1373,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-6283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-foreigners-making-pizza-in-italy","9":"tag-german-couple-moved-to-italy","10":"tag-moving-to-italy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/German-Pizza-Italy-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}