A café has created a pizza with eight different toppings to celebrate the diversity of the community it serves.

Sodo Pizza Café launched The Walthamstow Pizza which represents the largest ethnic communities living in the area, based on the last census.

A street party was held in Hatherley Mews, Walthamstow offering free pizzas to groups of eight people, all of different nationalities.

MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy was on hand to taste the pizza with features toppings inspired by traditional dishes from Romania, Jamaica, Lithuania, India, Poland, Turkey, Pakistan and Britain.

Ms Creasy said: “I’m delighted to be here. Walthamstow and pizza, is there anything better in life?”

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The Walthamstow Pizza has eight slices each with different toppings.

The event coincided with the end of British Food Fortnight which aims to show how food can serve as a symbol of harmony, bringing people together.

The sourdough pizza company partnered with migrant charity MyLondon to source local chefs from a wide range of backgrounds to create the pizza.

The Walthamstow Pizza will be served every month at Sodo Walthamstow who have decided to share the recipe with other companies and encourage them to replicate it.

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Dan Birch, founder of Sodo said: “The old English for Walthamstow is ‘Welcome Place’ and a love of food is something we all share. Who doesn’t like a good pizza?

“With this special pizza I really wanted to bring people together.

“I mean after all, aren’t we all just pizzas with different toppings?”

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