When Melroy D’mello returned from New York City in 2019 with his son, Kabir after a short trip, the Mulund resident realised his son had fallen in love with the New York-style pizza. Soon after, the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt and that meant Kabir couldn’t enjoy his favourite pizza, one that his father wanted to get for him but couldn’t because of the lockdown. “While getting that kind of pizza may be possible in town and Bandra, we couldn’t find what we wanted in our side of town in Mulund,” he shares. That is when D’mello decided to do his own research about making it at home, and found that it wasn’t too difficult.

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic has happened, there are a lot more people visibly cooking at home. While some have stuck to the basics, there are others who have taken it up a notch by making their favourite dishes, which they would have usually eaten at a restaurant but are now making at home. Among these are many dishes, but pizza has been a crowd-favourite, that this writer has seen appear on a lot more social media stories and posts, than ever before.