PIZZA TOURIST INDEX

Welcome to the Pizza Tourist Index!

If you’re new here, I’m Ines, a professional Pizzaiola, culinary consultant, and lifelong food traveler based in Los Angeles.

Here you’ll find every recipe, travel guide and reflective essays organized by category.

I’ll pin ( and continue to update) this to the Pizza Tourist homepage so every time you stop by, you can have a browse! Thanks for reading.

Xx, Ines

• Pantry 101

• Pizza Dough

• Focaccia

• Sausage Roll

• Fiori di Zucca Fritti (Fried squash blossoms stuffed with ricotta)

• Homemade Ranch Dressing (Non-mayo based. Two versions.)

• Roman-Style Gnocchi

• Sourdough Discard Crackers

• Clam Pizza

• Courgette & Comtè Pizza

• Corn and Crispy Spam Pizza

• Huitlacoche & Mushroom Pizza

• Kabocha and Rosemary Pizza

• Mortadella Panuozzo

• Persimmon and Hazelnut Pizza with Chicories

• Pizza Portafoglio

• Spicy Sausage Pizza

• Dulce Focaccia

• Everything Seasoned Focaccia

• Fig Jam and Caramelized Onion Focaccia

• Purple Focaccia

• Crispy Fish and Salad with Focaccia Croutons

• Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

• American Road Trip Pizza Boulder, Denver, Telluride to Flagstaff.

• Aspen Bougie ski town favorites.

• CDMX Food, bakeries, bars, and shopping in Mexico City.

• Los Angeles Pizza crawl through the city.

• Marseille Coffee, pizza, restaurants, and street food.

• Naples Favorite pizza stops in the motherland.

• Paris Coffee, restaurants, and street food.

• Pizza in Paris for when you’re craving pizza in the city of love.

• Sacramento A tourist guide to the City of Trees and California’s State Capital.

• San Diego Pizza in Dana Point and Southern San Diego.

• San Francisco Favorite martini watering holes, bakeries, wine bars, pizza places, and more.

• Tokyo Pizza, sushi, omelet rice, Izakaya spots, thrift and kitchen shopping, coffee shops.

• The Pepper Mill Gift Guide

• Carolina Aboumrad Entrepreneur behind Huitla, bringing Mexican huitlacoche to the fine dining world.

• Ariel Arce NYC restaurateur and champagne sommelier behind Tokyo Record Bar, Pearl Box, Roscioli NYC, and Big Pearl Caviar.

• Hailey Arnold Outdoor educator and entrepreneur behind The Coffee Cowboy.

• Michael Glaser Hollywood Location Manager of One Battle After Another. Also my husband.

• Zoë Komarin Chef and creator behind Zoe Food Party, known for inventive, vegetable-forward cooking.

• Camilla Marcus Chef, author, and founder of west~bourne, a regenerative pantry brand.

• Sam Rogers Produce liaison, gardener, and the person who will teach you how to shop a farmers market properly.

• Alexandra Stafford Yale grad turned food blogger and NYT bestselling author of Pizza Night and Bread Toast Crumbs.

• Karla Subero Pittol Chef and owner of Chainsaw, LA. Venezuelan-born Artist, cooking with fire.

• Rose Wilde Former human rights lawyer turned pastry chef. Owner of Red Bread, Los Angeles.

• Cooking at Ballerina Farm’s Holiday Party Behind the scenes of a very cold and beautiful evening.

• Growing Up in Japan Revisiting old familiar places and the memories they hold.

• Los Angeles During the Fires A reflection on community, loss, and resilience.

• Losing Your Identity When Following Your Dreams An honest reflection on being an entrepreneur.

• Making Pizza in Champagne, France With sommeliers and Champenoise in the French countryside.

• Monthly Musings from Mallorca A “month-in-the-life” reflection written from the Spanish island.

• Our Pop-Up Days at Dive Bars How it all started, back in 2019.

• Pizza School in Naples Attending pizza school in the motherland.

• Staging in Copenhagen What I learned apprenticing in Denmark in 2018.

• The Lupa Cotta Timeline A timeline of Lupa Cotta over the years. Featuring hustle, burnout, and everything in between.

• What We Ate at the River Cafe, London What we ate, and why it mattered.

• Working on Survivor On filming a television show and eating pizza with monkeys in the jungle.

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