Hi, I'm Malcolm Moore. I'm the editor of Ft Edit.

This is a special episode bringing you one of our most popular articles from the Ft Edit app.

It's a story that I wrote about one of the world's most loved foods.

Every year, the world's top 700 or so pizza chefs gather in Parma in the north of Italy

for the Pizza World Championships.

And this year, I was there too.

I wasn't sure what to expect.

Pizza is loved everywhere, but there are so many different types and so many strong opinions,

even inside Italy itself, let alone in the US and elsewhere.

How would the judges compare a New York slice to a Roman or a Naples pizza?

I focused on one person in particular, Danny Child, an English pizza chef from Norfolk, as he tries to win the competition.

Danny only started making pizza a few years

ago, but he did well in another event at Las Vegas last year and he came to Palmer with high hopes.

But could a self-trained chef beat Italy's finest pizza masters? Before we get to the story,

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Now, enjoy the story.

Can an English chef win the Pizza World Championship?

Written by Malcolm Moore and narrated by NOAA, News Over Audio.

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