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ABC News
ReadChef Pasquale Cozzolino Lost 101 Pounds Eating Pizza
The national segment that brought Cozzolino's transformation to a mainstream American audience.
Press
Chef, author and Neapolitan voice in New York.
Pasquale Cozzolino is available for interviews, television, podcasts, features and cultural programming on Neapolitan food, restaurant life in New York and the Pizza Diet story.
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Official bio
Short bioPasquale Cozzolino is a Naples-born chef based in New York, partner and executive chef at Ribalta, and author of The Pizza Diet.
Full bioRaised in Naples and shaped by New York's restaurant pace, Cozzolino is known for Neapolitan cooking, his work at Ribalta, and the widely covered Pizza Diet transformation that became a Simon & Schuster book. His current work moves between restaurants, media, private tables and fashion-and-food projects.
Media topicsNeapolitan pizza and dough craft; Italian food in New York; Pizza Diet and Mediterranean discipline; chef-led weight loss stories; restaurant openings; food inside cultural and commercial spaces.
Craft
From Naples craft to a global headline.
The Pizza Diet story traveled because it was simple, visual and unexpected: a Neapolitan chef in New York lost weight without abandoning the food that shaped him.
Press record
Selected coverage
Coverage that shaped the public story: the transformation, the book, Ribalta and Ray-Ban House.
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Simon & Schuster
ReadThe Pizza Diet
The book page that anchors the Pizza Diet story with Simon & Schuster.
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Ribalta
ReadOur Story
Ribalta's own story, with Cozzolino's New York work at the center of the restaurant.
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OpenTable
ReadRay-Ban House in NYC
A look at the SoHo restaurant where Italian food meets the Ray-Ban House world.
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Ray-Ban House
Read62 Prince Street
The 62 Prince Street address: fashion, culture and an all-day restaurant under one roof.
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People
ReadChef Drops Almost 100 Lbs. Eating Pizza
A lifestyle feature that helped make the Pizza Diet story recognizable beyond food media.
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