Sliced pizza

First came the news that some Italians add bicarbonate of soda as well as sugar to their tomato sauce to help neutralise the acidity.

Then, I found out Italians rely a lot more on nutmeg than I previously realised.

Turns out even meatballs on pasta are kind of a lie, too.

But none of those facts prepared me for the information Davide Argentino, Master Baker at Manchester’s new Neapolitan pizza place, Forbici, recently shared with me.

Speaking to HuffPost UK, the expert tells us that the traditional Neapolitan (the pizza is generally agreed to have been invented in Naples) way of slicing pizza does not involve a wheel or even a knife.

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