Best pizza in the world in Oz.
The country of origin of the
pizza, Italia, has awarded the Pizza
World Championship, officially
The Campionato Mondiale Della
Pizza, to an Australian chef, Di
Francesco, owner of the 400 Gradi
restaurant in Melbourne.
According to Yahoo News, he
had to beat some 600 contestants
with his version of the margherita
pizza, which is only allowed to
include basil leaves, garlic, olive
oil, mozzarella, salt and tomatoes.
“A lot of people think it is easy
to produce a margherita but it
is one of the hardest [pizzas] to
produce,” he told the Australian
website Good Food.
“With a margherita there is no
hiding anything that isn’t right.”
How to dodge $28K in tolls.
A thrifty New York taxi driver has
been charged with stealing more
than $28k from the Metropolitan
Transit Authority (MTA) by
“crossing the Robert F. Kennedy
(RFK) Bridge and entering the
Midtown Tunnel without making
a toll payment on more than four
thousand separate occasions by
‘piggybacking’ on cars directly in
front of his cab between 2012 and
2014,” reported Yahoo News.
His technique to avoid road
tolls was to tailgate other cars
so closely that the boom gate
would not come down until both
vehicles had passed through,
apparently not an uncommon
trick but rarely taken to this
extreme.
$1m Poker or passover?
Eric Afriat of Montreal, Quebec,
who was expected to join his
family for the Jewish holiday of
Passover, skipped the social event
to pursue his passion at the final
night of a poker tournament
being held at the Seminole Hard
Rock Hotel & Casino.
While perhaps not the most
pious of actions, according to the
Sun Sentinel he made the right
choice, as he left the tournament
with a cool $1 million in hand.
