“It was the piece that was missing and this recognition really fills me with pride.” He brought home two titles, “Best Pizzaiolo 2025” and “Best Classic Pizza” from the Australia’s Best Pizza Awards competition, in Melbourne. Emanuele Malara, born in 1987, Messina DOC, since the boy made his bones learning so much with humility taking example from his two older brothers: “I always had a great desire to do and I started being a waiter, the baker – says Emanuele -, then called me the owner of” Pizza Planet “,” Gianni Bibita “, a great master who taught me so much. In three months, working on the weekend, without even knowing it I already had a qualification in my pocket and I was pizza chef ». And the dive into the sea of the Aeolian sea to experience, Lipari, Panarea and Vulcano, environments in which he always felt at home considering that the paternal grandmother was originally from Lipari: “My first pizzeria – he continues – I opened it in Rome in 2009. I still studied at the university and to give the exams I took the night trains and returned with the running plane. A lifetime to be thought to think about it today. The place was fine, but after 5 years I felt that I had to change and in 2015 I made a ticket to Australia ». Here he opened his activity “Ciccio’s Pizza and Gelato”, dedicating it to his son.
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