Una Pizza Napoletana

Last year I decided to go to pizza school. I enrolled in a class taught at the Los Angeles chapter of the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana. (I know, pizza in LA? I asked why the class was held there rather than in New York, and apparently the Italians preferred the weather in LA.)

I went into the class thinking I knew about pizza. I have a pizza oven in my backyard and I make pizzas all summer long. After about an hour in pizza school, I realized I had been doing it all wrong. I