Ormskirk's own Nicola Jackson-Jones beat off tough competition to secure the crown 🍕
A former insurance worker who quit her job after nearly two decades to open her own pizzeria has been crowned Pizza Chef of the Year.
But it was Ormskirk's own Nicola Jackson-Jones who proved victorious this year. The pizzeria owner and chef, based just a 35 minute drive from Liverpool, boasts a growing collection of accolades, with the win seeing her beat off tough competition.READ MORE:Join the Christmas in Liverpool Facebook group
Selected finalists were then invited to cook their pizzas in front of the judging panel and live audience at London's Porchester Hall. Nicola Jackson-Jones, from Two Cents Pizza in Ormskirk, dazzled the judges in two of the three categories with her pizzas, 'The Cheesy and Onion' and 'Triple Pep'. She bought a pizza oven and freely admits her first attempts at pizza making were "awful". After a few months of practice, she opened Two Cents Pizza in Ormskirk, around seven or eight months before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Then, she teamed up with a local taxi driver during lockdown to deliver pizzas.
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