The Famous Italian pizza

At first, the pizza started as simple idea of food that is inexpensive and could be consumed quickly started from flat bread with various kinds of toppings such as oil, cheese, garlic, tomatoes and anchovies, developing to the new modern pizza as we know today.

Strangely that at the beginning only the people in Naples while the judgmental Italian authors called their eating ways as “disgusting” and it was consumed by Naples poor people.

In 1889 King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples, it says that the royal pair got bored of their french diet of haute cuisine and ordered a mixed collection of pizzas from the pizzeria Brandi, the successor to Da Pietro pizzeria, founded in 1760.

The queen mostly enjoyed what was called as pizza mozzarella,  a pie topped with the red tomatoes, soft white cheese and green basil, and some say that it was no coincidence that her favorite pie featured the colors of the Italian flag which red which represents tomatoes, green which represents the basil and white which represents the soft white cheese.

Queen Margherita’s blessing could have been the start of an Italy-wide pizza craze, but unfortunately, flat breads with toppings weren’t unique to the lazzaroni or their time, so the pizza became little known in Italy beyond Naples borders.

When people immigrated from Naples to the United states they started reproducing their crusty pizzas in New York and other american states such as Trenton, New Haven, Boston, Chicago and St. Louis.

The first registered pizzeria in the United States was G (for Gennaro) Lombardi’s on Spring Street in Manhattan, licensed to sell pizza in 1905.

Nowadays pizza has become a very famous meal all around the world and many food company’s started making their profits from it, not only that but the original pizza is considered as a healthy meal and some would recommend to eat pizza once in a week at least.

References :

http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/a-slice-of-history-pizza-through-the-ages

http://reyesnypizza.com/images/background.jpg.

Leave a comment