Sunday, May 03, 2009

Pizza trainee in North Korea sees God

Somebody said something interesting in an article about the first North Korean pizza restaurant.  Not only does the article involve tasting a food for the first time, but there is a very interesting scene that makes me think about the nature of the miraculous.  To set the scene:

Last year, chefs were flown to Naples and Rome to learn how to create authentic pizzas and pasta dishes, returning to North Korea to perfect them through “trial and error”, said Kim Sang-soon.
Italian chef Ermanno Furlanis was flown to North Korea in 1997 along with special pizza ovens.
In 2004, he described to the BBC how he had given lessons to three army officers who took copious notes and asked detailed questions such as how far apart olives should be placed on each pizza.
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The lessons took place on a warship off the coast of North Korea, no doubt for purposes of secrecy.  What follows I have illustrated for the purpose of dramatizing the interaction of Chef Ermanno Furlanis, his Korean pupil, and an unexpected visitor to the waterborne pizzeria:




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