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    In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie

    Men have long commanded the pizza-making scene, creating what one female champ calls a "macho problem." But that's starting to change as more women open pizzerias and gain recognition in the field.
    by Richard Morgan Oct 22, 2019 4 minutes
    Ann Kim, owner of Hello Pizza in Edina, holds a Sicilian pan pie and a Hello Rita pizza.

    When Laura Meyer won the World Pizza Championship for pan pizza in Parma, Italy, the Italian judges called her the male word for champion. Despite her first-place victory, she was the only winner who didn't get a trophy that day. Hers was mailed a year later.

    "They basically refused to acknowledge that a woman had won," she said, recently recalling the snub. She was the first woman to win — and the first American. That was 2013.

    The next year, competing as the only woman, she won best non-traditional pizza at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas with a triple-infused rosemary dough (rosemary water, rosemary-infused olive oil, and chopped rosemary). And last month, Meyer's simple pepperoni pizza won the first-ever division of the Caputo Cup, of modern pizza, and placed third for traditional pizza at a September contest in Atlantic City, N.J.

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