Marriott Bakes Indore’s Longest Pizza For a Noble Cause
Pizza is globally everyone’s favourite food, and deep down, we all wish that one day a fairy would wave her magic wand and grant us the wish of unlimited pizza supply for life. Well, at least I do, and so I was delighted to be invited by Marriott to participate in the making and baking of the Indore’s longest pizza. A few minutes before the event, on my way to the venue, I looked up the world’s ‘largest’ pizza on google, and I was startled to find out that it stands at an unimaginable length of 6,330 feet.
In fact, India alone has a track record of baking a pizza as long as 6200 feet. But today, on 3rd October 2018, at Indore Marriott, we were all making and baking a 77 feet long pizza for a noble cause. To honour this event, Indore Marriott invited Chef Nicola Costa from Southern Italy to make this occasion special by conferring his Italian culinary skills. In a brief conversation with executive chef Vivek Kalia and Nicola Costa, I learnt that the purpose of driving this initiative was to do something extraordinary for underprivileged kids. (Someone’s got to wave the magic wand after all)
The chefs thought that there could be no better way to make these children happy than to bake a pizza for them and involve them in the activity as well! By the end of the event, the kids learnt about a new cuisine, and well, they seemed to have fun making Indore’s longest pizza. The pizza making event kicked off sharp at 5 PM, and it was attended, by 50 trained chefs, 200+ Marriott staff, media professionals and nearly 100 children who had all gathered in the outdoor banquet space of Indore Marriott.
Over the next 30-minutes, Indore Marriott chefs were busy installing the pre-baked pizza bases on a long trail of tables and next to it, placing containers full of toppings. When the activity got into full swing, all the chefs, children, bloggers and media professionals standing on either side of these tables began to decorate the pre-baked pizza base in front of them. We were instructed by the chefs to first plash the base with tomato sauce, then everything else.
We followed the instruction and evenly spread the tomato sauce on the pizza base to make it soft and flavoursome. Then we added to it, a variety of veggies and massive amounts of mozzarella cheese. Too much love was poured into making this pizza, and as far as I could see, I only saw everyone smiling doing what they were doing.
Besides, a pizza is an Italian dish, and in Italy, they like to eat it to celebrate mealtime togetherness. Today, we did exactly the same thing, except today’s pizza also brought in some good karma.
