
Are the Best Tomatoes in California Grown in a South LA Backyard?
Clip: Season 2 Episode 4 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Pizzana’s Chef Danielle knows a farmer who grows delicious tomatoes in his LA backyard.
Pizzana’s Chef Danielle reveals his secret tomato source: Hans Fama, a city farmer who grows some of the best tomatoes in California right in his LA backyard. Chef Danielle puts the veggies to the test in a pizza cook off.
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Are the Best Tomatoes in California Grown in a South LA Backyard?
Clip: Season 2 Episode 4 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Pizzana’s Chef Danielle reveals his secret tomato source: Hans Fama, a city farmer who grows some of the best tomatoes in California right in his LA backyard. Chef Danielle puts the veggies to the test in a pizza cook off.
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-Daniele.
-Hello, my good friend.
-How are you doing?
-Now, better.
This is amazing.
-Good to see you.
-I love the hat.
-Thank you.
-Hans is one of the most amazing human being ever in Los Angeles.
It's a man that is focused on living in the past.
Hans went from having a job in a restaurant, a routine, to say, screw it, just going to be home and make my home a farm.
How many years now that you're doing all this?
-This garden I've been working on for about five years now.
I started just before the pandemic and slowly expanded to practically the entire backyard.
I have no employees.
I do all this by myself.
It's really a labor of love.
-That's why you've got that beautiful tan over there.
-I got too much sun.
I aged myself in 10 years and five years.
All right, come check out what I'm working on, Daniele.
I think this is something that's- -That's beautiful.
--near and dear to your heart.
Here, we have some of my own varieties that I've created, and they're in the finishing stages.
This is a type of pianola you've probably never seen before, except from me.
-No, it's bicolor.
-I'm the only one in the world growing it because I created it, and I get to name it.
This one is- -Can I try one of these?
-Of course, yes.
These are already about four weeks to a month old, and they've been sitting here.
This is how I prepare them to hang them.
You've obviously done that before, I'm sure.
-That's delicious.
It's starting to get on the sweeter side right now.
-[crosstalk] It's rich.
Talking and looking over these beautiful tomatoes, Talking and looking over these beautiful tomatoes, it's just making me hungry.
Should we make a pizza?
-Let's do it, yes.
-Come on, let's make a pizza.
.. -I got the oven fired up.
Let's go.
I'll show you how I stendere la pizza.
-Some Italian in there.
Basically, in Neapolitan tradition, the dough usually is stretched like this.
See?
This one doesn't need to be slapped because otherwise you get too thin in the middle.
See?
Let's see.
That's pretty good.
Look, I still know how to make dough.
-Oh, yes.
-You work your fields- -All by hand, no tractor.
-Then I destroy them.
See?
I destroy your tomato.
There you go.
-You ready to open up our pizza shop over here?
-Let's do it.
-Right here.
-Another one?
-My house.
-Another one?
We are on the farm making pizza.
Come on.
Salut.
-Cheers.
We did it.
-I love you.
-I love you too.
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