Having grown up watching his grandmother make tasty, thin-dough wonders in the oven of her Bronx apartment, Varasano was accustomed to a high standard of this universally-loved delicacy.
So, in spite of being a software engineer rather than a cook, he set out to create his own, mouth-watering pizza.
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Varasano says he was passionate about software engineering, his original profession, but it lacked the immediacy of impact that a mouthful of great-tasting tasting pizza has.
“My software was very complicated, so it was very difficult to explain to people,” he says. “Pizza is the exact opposite. You take one bite and in five seconds you’re excited about it.”
