For 26 years, pizza perfectionist and visionary Anthony Mangieri of Una Pizza Napoletana has made the same thing, only a little better every day.
He broke through as a tattooed hipster baker and a one-track food obsessive in 1996, long before these identities became millennial archetypes. His single-mindedness foreshadowed a generation of young food geeks who would lock themselves in a garage and not step back out into the light of day until they’d mastered the chocolate chip cookie.
He championed true Neapolitan pizza at least a decade before the Neapolitan pizza renaissance began to take hold.