Making pizzas fly

Acrobatic chef coming to Beijing for a week of shows and good eating, Mike Peters reports.

How does somebody grow up and become famous for throwing giant pizzas in the air?

"It really started as a joke," says Italy's Pasqualino Barbasso, who has twice won the world championship for acrobatic pizza, in 2001 and again in 2002. "I started doing it at the restaurant where I worked long ago, and customers started asking me to come and do shows. Now I've been doing it for more than 15 years."