We have all seen Mughlai and Punjabi cuisine chefs fling the roomali roti into the air like a frisbee. How different can it be with a pizza dough?

Barbasso lies on the floor and flings the dough from one hand on to the other from under his legs.

But chef Pasqualino Barbasso, a pizza acrobat from Sicily in Italy who was the visiting chef at JW Marriott Mumbai, Juhu last week, proved us wrong. Forty-year-old Barbasso showed us some mean moves and called it ‘joking with the pizza’.