Cooking up pizza culture 6,000 miles from Italy

From fine dining in Greenland to lowrider cars in Japan, businesses bloom around the world.

Subscribe   /   View in browser   /   Invite a friend 6 September 2022 One of the great things about starting a business is that you can do it pretty much anywhere. From guiding treks up Mount Everest to keeping a diner open in a one-road town in Nebraska, if you want to start doing your own thing, you don't have to go far. Here are five businesses from five different corners of the world that are making it work where they are.       01 Getting Greenlandic food right These Inuit chefs are using remote pop-ups and local ingredients picked from the edges of the permafrost to introduce their native food to the culinary world. Read more These Inuit chefs are using remote pop-ups and local ingredients picked from the edges of the permafrost to introduce their native food to the culinary world.       02 Cooking up a pizza culture 6,000 miles from Italy Rodrigo Villanueva trained in fine-dining restaurants in Peru and Italy, but it was only when he started a takeaway pizza kitchen in Lima that he really felt fulfilled. Read more Rodrigo Villanueva trained in fine-dining restaurants in Peru and Italy, but it was only when he started a takeaway pizza kitchen in Lima that he really felt fulfilled.       03 This garage spawned Japan's lowrider car movement Junichi Shimodaira founded custom car garage Paradise Road in Nagoya after discovering the movement on his travels in the US. Read more Junichi Shimodaira founded custom car garage Paradise Road in Nagoya after discovering the movement on his travels in the US.       04 How to turn ocean waste into 3D-printed furniture Just outside of Athens, BlueCycle is transforming plastic waste into chairs, tables and, sometime soon, even watches. Read more Just outside of Athens, BlueCycle is transforming plastic waste into chairs, tables and, sometime soon, even watches.       05 The brand putting Ghanaian weaving on the map Akosua Afriyie-Kumi built a relationship – and a brand – with local craftswomen in order to translate the traditional craft into modern, design-led accessories. Read more Akosua Afriyie-Kumi built a relationship – and a brand – with local craftswomen in order to translate the traditional craft into modern, design-led accessories.

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