Nancy Silverton at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles Īudrey Kelly of Audrey Jane's Pizza Garage in Boulder, Colo. Norma Knepp in Pennsylvania Amish Country Sarah Minnick at Lovely's Fifty-Fifty in Portland, Ore. Star in a recent surge of prominent female Grandma slices but not the actual grandmas." "Pizza making is a profession where men tell you that you belong in a kitchen, but not as a career," Meyer said. I'm his talent."īroadly and frequently, male chauvinism is baked into pizza at every step: from the presumption that pizza deliverers are men to the dearth of female So many people think I could only be as high up as I am because I'm Tony's wife. My very first day of work, a coworker just watched me do my job like I was a show, entertainment, an ooh-la-la toy. Tony's, the prestigious pizza parlor in San Francisco where she is owner Tony Gemignani's right hand and runs its International School of Pizza. "Women have always been part of pizza, but it's very macho. But to many in and out of her profession, she's just a woman. Meyer is a pizza powerhouse, any way you slice it. And last month, Meyer's simple pepperoni pizza won the firstĪmerican pizza division of the Caputo Cup, a pizza-making contest in Naples, Italy, theīirthplace of modern pizza, and placed third for traditional pizza at a September contest in Atlantic City, N.J. The next year, competing as the only woman, she won best nontraditional pizza at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas with a triple-infused rosemary dough (rosemary water, rosemary-infused olive oil and chopped rosemary).
She was the first woman to win - and the first American. "They basically refused to acknowledge that a woman had won," she said, recently recalling the snub.
Despite her first-place victory, she was the only winner who didn't get a trophy that day.
When Laura Meyer won the World Pizza Championship for pan pizza in Parma, Italy, the Italian judges called her the male word for champion.
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