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The history of pizza
One of the most popular foods around the world today is pizza. Pizza restaurants are popular everywhere from Beijing to Moscow to Rio, and, even in the US, the home of the hamburger, there are more pizza restaurants than hamburger places. The worldwide love for pizza is a fairly recent phenomenon. Before the 1950s, pizza was a purely Italian food, with a long history in southern Italy.
The origins of pizza are somewhat uncertain, though they may go back to the Greeks (pita bread) or even earlier. Under the Roman Empire, Italians often ate flat circles of bread, which they may have flavoured with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. By about the year 1000 A.D. in the area around Naples, this bread had a name: picea.
This early kind of pizza lacked one of the main ingredients we associated with pizza: the tomato. In fact, tomatoes did not exist in Europe until the 16th century, when Spanish explorers brought them back from South America. The Spanish showed little interest in tomatoes, but southern Italians soon began to cultivate them and use them in cooking. At some point in the 1600s, Neapolitan tomatoes were added to Pizza, as it was known by then.
The next development in pizza making came about, according to legend, in June 1889, when a Neapolitan pizza maker was asked to make pizza for the king and queen. To show his patriotism, he decided to make it green, white, and red, like the Italian flag, using basil leaves, mozzarella, and tomato. He named his pizza “Margherita”, after the queen, and that is what this classic kind of pizza is still called today.
In Italy, pizza remained a specialty of Naples and other areas of the south until well into the 20th century. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, when many southerners moved to the north to work in the new factories, pizzerias opened up in many northern Italian cities. By the 1980s, they could be found all over the country and pizza had become a part of the Italian way of life.
Today, pizza has become so common in so many countries that its Italian origins are often forgotten. Indeed, the global version of pizza made with all kinds of ingredients have little in common with the Neapolitan original, as anyone knows who has tasted a pizza in Naples.
