what we’re eating BY AMB ER WAT S O N PH OTO GR A P H Y B Y J O H N MICHAE L SIMP SO N
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ou don’t have to fly all the way to Italy to enjoy an authentic Neapolitan pizza – just a short drive to Golden Belt’s campus will give you the same flavorful experience at Cugino Forno Pizzeria. The name translates to “cousins oven,” which is where the restaurant’s story begins: Three cousins from Turkey – Joseph Ozbey, Yilmaz Guver and Adam Aksoy – opened their first pizzeria in Greensboro in 2017 after visiting famous restaurant L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele (which was featured in the movie “Eat Pray Love”) in Napoli, Italy. “We loved the pizzas so much that we knew we wanted to do something similar in the U.S., so I decided to stay in Italy and learn all the techniques that go into Neapolitan-style pizza, like preparing Cugino Forno Pizzeria the dough, which takes about 48 hours, and cooking the pizzas in 90 seconds,” 800 Taylor St. 919-908-0122 Joseph explains. cuginoforno.com Five years later, the family business partners now operate four 36
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