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Pizzas With Natural Yeast Dough On Board Costa Cruises Ships Featuring The New Brand “Pummid’Oro”

Starting December2015 on the Costa Diadema, and afterwards on other ships of the fleet, CostaCruises guests will be able to taste only the best of genuine traditional pizza.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

Thanks to a specialcooperation-based agreement with the <?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>University of Gastronomic Sciences,the Italian cruise company will offer pizzas made with 100% natural yeast in its onboard pizzerias, featuring the brand Pummid’Oro.

This exclusiveproject further enrich the culinary offer onboard Costa ships, which is focusedon the promotion of Italy’s finest,joining other tasty innovations already announced, such as regional menus,Italian Gelateria, gourmet burgerswith 100% Italian Fassona beef and a new buffet corner dedicated to pasta.

The use of naturalyeast guarantees natural leavening ofthe pizza dough, making the pizzas more flavourful,fragrant and easier to digest. While this preparation, usedby tradition in the past and even in ancient times, involves a slower processand requires special care and attention, it also generates excellent results interms of quality.

Thanks to UNISG’s know-howfor simplifying onboard management of natural yeast, Costa acquired a special natural yeast generator from ESMACH, anItalian company in Grisignano (Vicenza)that exports such technology around the globe.

Another basicingredient in the dough is flour, which for the pizzas proposed on Costa shipswill come from high-quality Italian suppliers, selected together with UNISG. Inkeeping with Neapolitan tradition, according to which a pizza should be madeonly with type 00 flour, one type of dough with natural yeast will be made usingMolino Casillo type 00 flour (producedin Corato – Puglia).Guests can also choose a second type of dough, prepared with a special blend of Molino Varvello 1888flours (produced in Piacenza), that contains whole wheat, kamut and fibre-enrichedoat flours and is rich in omega 3 and polyphenols, thereby reducing the impactof glycaemia while providing greater health benefits.

The pizzas of the Pummid’Oropizzeria will be made with ingredients selected together with the UNISG, suchas the San Marzano DOP tomato, extra-virgin olive oil and cowor buffalo milk mozzarella, acquired from Italiansuppliers, to guarantee a product of absolute quality, prepared according toItalian recipes.

In addition to “traditional” pizzas, like the Margherita, the Quattro Stagioni, the Napoletanaand the Calzone, Costa guests canalso try special pizzas, created based on the artistic flair and imagination ofRiccardo Bellaera, Costa’s Corporate Bakery & Pastry Chef, and the input ofthe UNISG team: the Tricolore, withricotta cheese and Parma D.O.P. prosciutto; the Liguria, with stracchino cheese and pesto; the Sicilia, with olives, capers and anchovies; and the Bufala, with buffalo mozzarella.

The pizzas can also be combined with Italian beers.

For additional information:

UNISG

Communication Office - tel +39 0172 458 507 - fax +39 0172 458 550

comunicazione@unisg.it

Costa Cruises

Press Office - Tel. +39 0105483523 / 010 5483068 -costapressoffice@costa.it

Gabriele Baroni – Communication Director – cell. +39 3497668013 - baroni@costa.it

Press releases and pictures on www.costapresscenter.com

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