Princess CruisesΒ have announced another exclusive celebrity culinary collaboration, with Pizza ChefΒ Tony Gemignani, the 13-time World Pizza Champion and undisputed greatest pizza maker in modern history.Β Chef GemignaniΒ has created five unique pizzas for Princess, each with an exciting blend of savoury flavours and premium ingredients from Soppressata sausage and hot honey to Gorgonzola and sweet fig preserve, further enhancing the lineβs position as offering the Best Pizza at Sea.
Chef GemignaniβsΒ artisan, hand-crafted pizzas will initially debut at Alfredoβs onboard the new Sun Princess, adding to the greatest assembly of culinary experiences at sea, with plans to extend to the rest of the fleet this summer.
Princess chefs received specialised training under the guidance ofΒ Chef GemignaniΒ from his acclaimed Tonyβs Pizza Napoletana inΒ San FranciscoΒ ensuring they can masterfully replicate his original, hand-crafted pizzas at sea.
To mark the exciting, new collaboration,Β Princess CruisesΒ will attempt to set aΒ GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSΒ title onΒ July 12Β forΒ Largest Pizza PartyΒ at multiple venues with fresh-from-the-oven pizza prepared by the lineβs master chefs, including new selections fromΒ Chef Gemignani.
Chef GemignaniΒ is the most decorated pizzaiolo in American history, an award-winning chef, restaurateur, master instructor, philanthropist, founder of Slice House byΒ Tony Gemignani, and author ofΒ PIZZA, The Pizza Bible,Β andΒ The Pursuit of Pizza. Born and raised inΒ Northern California, he opened his first restaurant inΒ San FranciscoΒ in 2009 β Tonyβs Pizza Napoletana β offering several styles of pizzas including Classic American, Italian, Sicilian and Neapolitan pizzas artfully made with artisan flours, an array of authentic sauces, and seasonal ingredients and finished in seven different, regionally-specific ovens.
The restaurant was met with immediate success upon opening and was named the best pizzeria byΒ USA TodayΒ and top pizza restaurant by the Travel Channel.
βPrincess is about delivering great experiences and there is no more important element than Pizza.Β While Princess has long been known for having the best pizza at sea, we decided to take it up an entirely new level with legendaryΒ Tony Gemignani,β saidΒ John Padgett, Princess President. βTony is the βGOATβ with unparalleled world championships, expertise and passion for crafting the perfect pizza.β
Over the course of his career,Β Chef GemignaniΒ has achieved 13 World Pizza Champions, two-time Food Network Gold Medalist, fourΒ GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSΒ titles, and opened more than 30 restaurants. Heβs appeared on multiple reality television series including βFood Network Challenge,β βBar Rescue,β and appeared on the Master Class GOAT series, The Travel Channel andΒ CNN.Β https://tonygemignani.com/
βPrincess is the originalΒ Love BoatΒ and its magnificent ships are known to all the world,β said Gemignani. βBringing my original recipe hand-crafted pizzas inspired by the destinations Princess visits to the world-class line up of culinary offerings onboard its ships is not only exciting but an honor.β
The newΒ Chef Gemignani-designed pizzas will take centre stage at Alfredoβs and Gigiβs specialty pizzerias, charming, sit-down venues offering an enticing menu of freshly prepared, individual-size pizzas, salads, wine and beer and more, and voted βBest Pizza at Seaβ byΒ USA Today, as well as the complimentary Slice locations found on the Lido Deck of Princess shiΒ