Chapter 33: The Great War Is Coming
"It's my first time eating Italian pizza, and it's very different from the American one, right?" Huang Weiwei asked.
"American pizza is thick and fluffy, Italian pizza is much thinner and crispier, if you haven't tried it, you should try it, although the most famous Margarita in this restaurant is not authentic, but the owner is Italian, and the taste is really good." Deanna replied with a smile.
It turns out that the pizza that Huang only eats often is American-style, that is, the Pizza Hut of the Great Celestial Dynasty, which is thick, soft and meaty, while the Italian style to be eaten today is just the opposite.
Naples, Italy, is the birthplace of pizza and is now more than 2,000 years old, and traces of it have been found in the ruins of Pompeii. It was originally a food for the poor, but it became widely known during the reign of Ferdinand IV, and the "Margarita" was named after Queen Margarita of Savoy, who visited the city. Traditionally made in a wood-burning oven, the ingredients are strictly controlled by the 2004 rules, and the pizza in Naples is still the most authentic, so much so that there is a local pizza chain restaurant, called "Real Napoli Pizza" In 2015, Italy officially applied for the traditional Neapolitan pizza to be listed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, so as to "swear sovereignty" to the world: Naples in Italy is the authentic origin of pizza!
American pizza is fast and convenient, and its pie base is machine-pressed, pressing the flour thick and thick, and naturally baking it like a flatbread. However, this does not happen in Italy, where the picozzerias are small but the pizzas are all handmade. Every morning, the chef prepares the low-temperature fermented dough, and when the work starts, the dough is bulldozed with a rolling pin and then shaken in his hand, a bit like Indian loaf. Authentic pizza crusts are thrown out in this way, and only when the dough is flipped thin and round does it start to be topped, only then will the baked crust be soft and chewy. Italian pizza generally has no more than three toppings, and the classic "margarita" pizza from Naples does not even have meat on it, only tomato sauce, basil leaves and mozzarella cheese.
Of course, it is also rumored that the Roman Foreign Legion soldiers stationed in Palestine were the first to use herbs and olive oil to flavor the local unleavened bread, which was the prototype of pizza. It is also believed that pizza originated from an ancient Turkish and Balkan pie called pita, which is very similar in shape and pronunciation to pizza. There is also a saying that is often talked about by the people of the Great Celestial Empire, saying that the ancestor of pizza is the pie of the Celestial Empire. Legend has it that after the Italian traveler Marco Polo traveled around the Celestial Empire, he couldn't forget the taste of the Celestial Empire pie, so he asked the chef to imitate it according to the method he described. But the chef didn't know how to wrap the filling in the dough, so he had to sprinkle it directly on the pie, and the pizza pie was born.
Time is like quicksand between the fingers of Huang Weiwei and Deanna's small talk, and the food they ordered is slowly being served with the passage of time. After tasting the restaurant's "Margarita" pizza, Huang Weiwei felt that it was okay, but it was too vegetarian for a carnivore like him.
The only thing that surprised Huang was that Deanna actually ate a whole pizza by herself, and Huang Wei was stunned and admired, no wonder she had just ordered two pizzas.
After the meal, they didn't drive, but the two of them walked alone through the streets of Los Angeles, when the lights were already on and night had fallen.
The sky shimmered with blurry points of light, like elves bouncing on them. The night is also lit by lights, and the night is even more beautiful against the backdrop of the city of lights. On the street, the street lamps gradually lit up, red, green, yellow, colorful, decorating Jinghong City very beautifully.
The two of them get closer slowly, slowly, and sometimes it is a very romantic thing to walk on the street after tea and dinner.
"On the 28th, I played at the Lucas Oil Arena in Indianapolis, will you watch the "Elite Top 8 Qualifier"? Huang Wei turned his head to look at Deanna beside him and asked.
"Yes, I'll watch it live on TV, you have to do it, I hope you can win." Deanna replied with a smile, her eyes crooked like crescents.
"Definitely, victory will belong to me, and it will definitely belong to USC!" Huang Weiwei said firmly.
"It's late, I'll take you home." Thinking that the time was almost up, Huang only proposed to go back.
"Hmm!"
After driving Deanna home, she was not invited in for coffee, and of course there was no parting kiss or anything like that, only a normal goodbye.
Huang Weiwei is still very satisfied with this result, after all, it is the first date, and he thinks that this is almost the same. As for the first base, second base, and even third base in the back, they are all targets to be attacked later.
And now the trouble is that Deanna is too much of a man and a Christian...
After returning home, Huang Weiwei also made a phone call to Deanna and said a more obscure love story, unless love is really the legendary kind of love at first sight plus dry firewood meets fire, otherwise it is basically the kung fu of water mill to succeed. Isn't that a good sentence said, a good woman is afraid of pestering her.
Huang Weiwei did not rest immediately after the incident, and Twenty withdrew his mind from the love of his children and concentrated on his next opponent, Michigan State University.
Studying their information, there is a person in their lineup who is very interested, but unfortunately he is still a substitute and a role-type, so he is not a big threat for the time being.
And this time I was really lucky, I met Michigan State University in the top 8 qualifiers, but fortunately it was not in the final finals, you must know that the finals were held in Detroit, if I met at that time, it was equivalent to half of Michigan's home court.
Now don't worry, when it comes to Michigan, we have to mention the legendary player "Magic" Erwin. Johnson, who led the Michigan Spartans to a Finals victory over Larry in 1978. After Bird reached the top, the school has since become a national basketball school.
Tom Izo became the head coach of the Spartans beginning in 1995, and in the 2000 NCAA Finals, Izo led the team to an 89-76 victory over the University of Florida to win the second NCAA championship in Michigan's history. In addition, in the 10 years from 1999 to 2008, Izzo led the team to the NCAA Final Four four times, and no other college coach can match it in this day and age. And since leading the team, Izzo has not missed the team from a tournament for a year.
Just by looking at the stats, you can see how strong the Trojans' opponents are in the next round. Not only is the division seeded higher, the lineup is more reasonable, but there is also a super coach.
However, in "March Madness", the last thing missing is a dark horse!
All kinds of ticket requests.