Joseph Lucia

Master Instructor with Certified Training Pathway Lecce location
Giuseppe Lucia began his professional activity in 1986 working in the family bakery. Since 1987, he began to gain various experiences in the restaurant and pizzeria business while attending several courses in baking and pizzeria.

Founder of the International School of Catering in 2010. In April 2003, together with 8 other colleagues, he formed the "Associazione Pizzaioli Salentini," the first in Apulia with the purpose of training, informing, creating working and purchasing groups to sponsor activities in the Apulian territory, an association with the most women pizza chefs in the world and the only one to have obtained the "Fair Play" recognition at the World Pizza Championship. He is founder of Team Acrobatic Salento, obtaining prestigious national and international awards.

He has been running the pizzeria Zio Giglio in Lecce since 1998. He has been a Master Instructor with Certified Training Path of Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli since 2021.

Professional Acknowledgements

• Captain and coach of Team Acrobatic Salento.
• Creator of the MSC Pizza Chefs Trophy.
• Creator of the International 2 Mari Trophy
• Creator of The Best World Pizza Champion

Professional Experience

• 1986 – 1989 Pastry Chef – Danny’s Pastry Shop, Lecce
• 1990 – 1998 Various experiences as a pizzaiolo and cook
• 1998 to present Owner of the Pizzeria “Uncle Giglio” – Lecce
• 2001 – 2006 Teacher of Pizzeria courses at Confartigianato Lecce
• 2021 to present – Master Instructor for Italian Pizzaioli School