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Fayetteville chef and restaurant owner Nadia Minniti named one of 10 women in pizza to watch in 2024

By Staff Report, posted 2 years ago
Chef and Pizzaiolo Nadia Minniti. Photos provided by: the Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce 

Chef and Pizzaiolo Nadia Minniti, owner of Gusto Napoletano Italian restaurant and pizzeria in Fayetteville has been named one of the 10 women in pizza to watch in 2024 in the US.  She has been featured in the March issue of PMQ Pizza magazine, a nationwide trade publication for pizza operators.  Chef Minniti is at the forefront of the Women in Pizza movement, a knowingly male-dominated field.

Minniti poses with the March issue of PMQ Pizza magazine. Photos provided by: the Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce 

Chef Minniti has dedicated her life to food history and the historical tradition of Neapolitan pizza, becoming a certified VPN pizzaiolo in 2017 and opening Gusto Napoletano in 2019, where she celebrates not only the famous wood-fired Neapolitan pizza, but Neapolitan and Italian cuisine in general.  Her attention to choosing only high quality ingredients, most coming directly from Italy, and educating the public in what authentic Neapolitan cuisine is, makes her restaurant one of a kind.

Read the full article published in the PMQ Pizza magazine, here

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