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Pizzas to die for

ITALIAN prosecutors believe pizza in Naples may be baked in ovens which burn wood from coffins dug up in the local cemetery, according to Italian newspaper Il Giornale.

Investigators are targeting some of the thousands of small, lower-end pizza shops and bakeries that populate the city on suspicion that the owners may “use wood from caskets to keep ovens burning.

“Naples’ graveyard has long been hunting ground for thieves: last year, 5,000 flowerpots were stolen from the cemetery.

“A gang might have set up a market for coffins sold to hard-hearted owners of bakeries and pizzerias looking to save money on wood,” Il Giornale said.

According to tradition, Neapolitan pizza should be cooked in a stone oven with an oak-wood fire.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .