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Spaghetti and Meatballs – Pizza?
6-year-old Boy Wins National Contest for the Most Creative Pizza Recipe
Most first-grade boys don't give much thought to what goes in to making a great pizza. Eating pizza? Of course. Creating inventive pizza recipes? Probably not.
But 6-year-old Cameron Bergan showed a panel of celebrity judges, pizza aficionados Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax, and all of America that age isn't a prerequisite for culinary creativity. Cameron's "Spaghetti and Meatballs Pizza" took top honor in California Pizza Kitchen's CPKids Most Creative Pizza Contest celebrating National Pizza Month. In addition to winning a $1,000 gift card good at any California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), Cameron's pizza will be featured on the CPKids menu nationwide after the first of the year. All proceeds from sales of his pizza, up to $100,000, will benefit select children's hospitals in cities throughout the country.
"I'm glad my pizza will help other kids," says Cameron. "It will be fun to order my pizza when we eat at California Pizza Kitchen."
Cameron's pizza was one of hundreds of inventive pizza recipes entered by 6- to 13-year-old creative kid cooks from across America. His pizza was selected from a panel of judges including celebrities such as Steve Schirripa from The Sopranos and Joe Farrell of Trading Spaces: Family, as well as Emily Smith, director of FamilyFun online and CPK's co-founders and co-CEOs Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax.
"There are two things I love: pasta and pizza," says Steve Schirripa, the actor who plays Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri on HBO's The Sopranos and author of A Goomba's Guide to Life (Random House, 2003). "So Cameron's pizza hit a certain sweet spot for me."