(EN) Pizza with flavor history (EN)

Day 3,622, 10:25 • Published in Mexico Mexico • by ltandehui


PIZZA!!!

It is a baked bread made with wheat flour, salt, water and yeast, and topped with tomato sauce and other ingredients such as cheese, salami, mushrooms, onion, ham or olives. Originally from Neapolitan cuisine (Italy), it has become very popular all over the world.



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Every second we consume 350 servings of pizza and, every year, five billion pizzas are sold in the world. With these two data it is easy to understand that Italy's most representative recipe, pizza, is not just any food.



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The word "pizza" was first documented in Italy (in the year 997 AD), there are records of very similar products since the Neolithic period. We know that the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks already cooked flat breads spiced with various ingredients.


Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza
* Bread extracted from the ruins of Pompeii, with cuts of eight portions similar to those made in modern pizzas *


Plakous
It means "flat" was such a popular dish in ancient Greece that the famous rhetorician Athenaeus extolled his virtues but .. with one of Greece's most famous rhetoricians recommending plakous, how could we say no?
The ancient Greeks made a flat bread which they seasoned with herbs, onions and garlic.


*We could have tried the "one dough" cheesecake we mentioned earlier*



Focaccia
The Etruscans cooked another flat bread that covered with olives, and other ingredients.



Italy...
In any case, in the history of pizza there is a date that is essential to mention: 1889. On July 11 of that year, the queen consort of Italy, Margaret of Savoy, visited Naples and the pizzeria Brandi, the cook Raffaele Esposito created a pizza with garnished tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, which represented the colors of the Italian flag.



The first in Italy...
"Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba". It was created in Naples in 1738 to support street vendors of pizza, although it was not officially inaugurated until 1830.