Ciao! Thanks for popping in, I’m Shab!

Founder and pizzaiola-in-the-works behind Lingua. Let me tell you about how this all began at the end of the summer in the middle of a pandemic.

It started with some sourdough starter I received as a birthday gift in June 2020.My life pursuing music and photography had halted with the pandemic. My eyesight continued to deteriorate even further. I felt stuck. So I started baking.

Bread turned to focaccia turned to pizza, and with every pizza I felt more and more connected to the times I’d spent living in Italy. I was reminded of the culture I was so infatuated with, the simplicity of the food, the corner cheese shop passed down for generations, the smell of bread all across town at lunchtime.

As I’d stand in my kitchen playing with dough, it would hit me that hours had passed and I hadn’t thought about my eyesight for a single moment. Could this be the thing I’d been looking for? Something my eyesight won’t hinder me from doing, something I could potentially make a life out of?

I didn’t want to muse on it for too long, so I leaned in.I bit the bullet and bought an Ooni oven, and started selling pizzas every weekend.

With every pizza I make I become more and more passionate about my Italian inspirations, my desire to create light, digestible dough with simple, fresh toppings to get you up to cloud 9 without even trying.

Grazie mille for supporting small businesses, supporting your differently abled peers, supporting local farmers, and most importantly for supporting pizza.

Thank you thank you,

Shabnam Ferdowsi (but you can call me Shab)