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In the Kitchen: Cheese Wood-Fired Pizza

In the kitchen today, we welcome Chef and Owner of Anna’s Vesuviano mobile pizza truck, Anthony Giordano, making a cheese wood-fired pizza. Pizza has always been Anthony’s passion and he named his food truck business after his grandmother Anna.

3 secret pizza spots around Rhode Island that you'll thank yourself for trying

Lucky for us chef Anthoy Giordano moved from New York City to Providence at the start of the COVID pandemic. His wife, Sophia Blum, grew up in Providence and her parents still live on the East Side, hence the move.

Anna’s Vesuviano Makes a Multicultural Statement through Wood-Fired Pizza

Pizza is way more than just pizza to Anthony Giordano, owner of Anna’s Vesuviano mobile pizza trailer. It’s an edible symbol of cultures colliding to create something incredibly delicious. And even though his family comes from Naples, Italy, he says we shouldn’t just credit the Italians for inventing pizza.

Wood-Fired Obsession: Chef Anthony Giordano brings his lifelong history with pizza to Rhode Island.

Growing up in Poughkeepsie, New York, pizza surrounded Giordano from a young age. “Every Friday my dad used to make pizza,” he recalls. “I remember sitting there watching him—he was always making square pizzas on a sheet tray. He would pretend not to see me, and when he’d bend down to put the pizza in the oven, I’d steal some raw dough and eat it.”