NAPLES, Italy — Chicago is famed for its fabulously cheesy deep-dish pizza, but Naples, it is generally agreed, is where the savory thin-crust version of the pie was born.

Neapolitan-born expert pizza maker Daniele Uditi believes that to understand pizza, you need to eat it in the place it was invented. Here are his top places to eat pizza in Naples.

In Naples, Sara’s on the hunt for the perfect pizza in the place where it all started. Across the bay in Sorrento, it’s all lemons all the time as Sara visits a proud family of lemon growers.

"Pizza was born in Naples," says Alessandro Marinacci, who helped organize the smackdown with Caputo flour, "but the record was made in Milan." Last year, Milan's pizza clocked in at just over 1.5 ...