I became obsessed with going to Naples, Italy to have pizza – Margherita Pizza specifically – when I read (and then watched), “Eat Pray Love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert. As part of her year-long self-discovery journey that involved culinary travel, she has pizza in Naples. As she ooos and ahhhs over the delicious flavor of the simple pizza of tomato sauce, cheese, and basil, Elizabeth says, “I’m having a relationship with my pizza.” So when Talia di Napoli invited me to try their authentic Neopolitan pizza that is shipped directly from Naples to your home, you know I had to try it.

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Here’s what makes Talia di Napoli’s Neopolitan pizza so unique

The ingredients:
The company sources from southern Italian ingredients that are all-natural, have no preservatives, GMO’s, or additives.

The crust uses the famed 00 flour which every fine pizza maker has always told me is the ONLY flour to use to make pizza. It’s ground very fine and has a lower gluten content. It is, therefore, said to be better for people who have gluten-intolerance issues. But it’s also said to produce that wonderful pull and tug to pizza dough we love.

The tomatoes are grown “on the footsteps” of Pompei.

The water is local and contains elements of limestone and mineral salts that lend to the consistency of the dough.

The cheese is delivered to the Talia di Napoli kitchens on a daily basis and comes from a dairy farm located at the base of Mount Vesuvius.

You can’t get much more local or Italian than all of that!

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How it reaches you:
It’s flash-frozen right after baking in their wood-fired oven, sent to your home using cryofrozen technology. The pizzas we ordered came fully-frozen and went straight into our home freezer until it was time to bake them for 9-11 minutes, depending on how crisp you want the crust (I recommend erring on the side of 9 minutes – you can always add more time).

The pizzas you can choose from:
Now, if you’re used to having pizza that’s covered and loaded up with a bunch of toppings, the Talia di Napoli pizzas will surprise you (as any Naples, Italy pizza will if you go) because toppings are minimal. Like fine, Italian pastas, a few, essential ingredients mean you can really taste them without them overwhelming the flavor of the sauce, dough, and cheese, or competing against each other. So don’t expect to get a meat-lover’s / stuffed crust kind of thing delivered. Instead, you’ll get ones like the flavors below that you’ll want to enjoy on their own, OR you can add to with your ingredients. Take my word for it though – keep it to a minimum so you can appreciate all of the ingredients mentioned above.

Four Cheese has Emmental Cheese from Switzerland, Gorgonzola, Parmesan, and Fior di Latte Mozzarella. It is described as having “buttery, nutty, and sweet tones.” It is a simple pizza but it takes “cheese pizza” to new levels of flavor.

Margherita is the most iconic of the Neopolitan pizzas because it symbolizes the Italian flag with green (basil), red (tomato sauce), and white (mozzarella cheese). It is simple and very good. I can’t say I was “having a relationship” with it, but it certainly satiated my desire to have the real deal.

Mozzarella pizza focuses on just their Fior di Latte Mozzarella and it’s the one Talia di Napoli encourages you to use as your “blank canvas” for other toppings.

Provolina was our favorite, with chopped cherry tomatoes, smoked provola cheese, Fior di Latte Mozzarella, and Parmesan, it had complexity and a great flavor.

The Provolina Neopolitan pizza was our personal favorite, with smoked cheese and tomato slices.

Rossa is their cheese (and therefore lactose-) free pizza with a thicker layer of tomato sauce. It’s a very pretty-looking pizza and lends itself well to other toppings if you want to keep it dairy-free.

Tartufina has that same Fior Di Latte Mazzarella plus Porcini mushrooms, and Truffles. It’s their most elegant pizza and it’s delicious but you have to like truffles.

You order the pizzas in multi-packs where you can order 8 of the same flavor, order as few as two to a pack (but then their price per pizza is $22.50/each) or order combination packs of 8 that bring it down to around $12-$16 each plus shipping and taxes depending on where you live. You can easily share a pizza with one or two others so get a pack and cook only as many, and which ones, you want. I also recommend keeping a couple as a “bread” to go with pasta or to augment a charcuterie board.

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Baking Talia di Napoli pizzas:
Place each pizza directly on the center rack of your oven. My average-size oven fit two side-by-side, so for our group of six, we did multiple rounds of baking, which is quick. They say NOT to bake the pizzas in a convection oven. I did end up reheating a piece in my air fryer/convection oven and it was fine but definitely crispier.

But really, international pizza delivery?:
One of our guests was concerned about the carbon footprint caused by shipping pizza to the U.S. all the way from Italy. When I asked the company about this, they said, “Talia’s import operations are carbon neutral and they pay voluntary tax to cancel out their import carbon footprint.” Further, they take care with the environment when it comes to their packaging. “Talia endeavors to be an environmentally-friendly brand in packaging and shipping. All pizza sleeves are made out of recycled paper and we use a kind of foam out of cornstarch as the insulator when shipping, which is completely recyclable, biodegradable, and dissolvable,” they report.

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Is Talia di Napoli’s Naples, Italy Pizza for you?

Depending on where you live, you might be able to find high-quality Neopolitan pizza near you and it may be delicious. But there is a real novelty and feeling of having done something special by ordering the real thing, from the real place, “reawakening” authentic Naples pizza from its sleep, to serve your family. Until you can get to Naples yourself, and while supporting a community and culture during the pandemic, it’s not only the next best thing to sitting down at a table in Naples – it’s a “real food traveler” experience in authentic cuisine.

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— Story and photos, except featured image, by Courtney Drake-McDonough, which is courtesy Talia di Napoli

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