The Real, True, Honest-to-Goodness History of Pizza |
July 26, 2010 | ||
Pizza was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in Menlo Park NJ in 1880. After inventing the incandescent light bulb, Edison became hungry and... Thomas Edison, Inventor of Pizza Okay, that's not it. The real history of pizza starts in Italy. Or Greece. Perhaps Egypt There are good arguments for each, depending on how we define pizza. Starting with the loose yet scientific definition of "some kind of flat bread with stuff on it," we know that pizza dates back to at least the 1st Century B.C., when the Roman poet Virgil wrote, Their homely fare dispatch’d, [More...] |
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History & Legends of Pizza |
July 26, 2010 | ||
Pizza is a baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow bread-like crust covered with seasoned tomato sauce, cheese, and often other toppings such as sausage or olive. The word pizza is believed to be from an Old Italian word meaning "a point," which in turn became the Italian word "pizzicare," which means "to pinch" or pluck.The pizza could have been invented by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, Romans, or anyone who learned the secret of mixing flour with water and heating it on a hot stone. [More...] |
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Pizza History |
July 23, 2010 | ||
Pizza, like so many other foods, did not originate in the country for which it is now famous. Unless you have researched the subject, you, like so many people, probably always thought Pizza was strictly an Italian creation.
The foundations for Pizza were originally laid by the early Greeks who first baked large, round and flat breads which they "annointed with oil, herbs, spices and Dates." Tomatoes were not discovered at that time or, very likely, they would have used them as we do today. Eventually the idea of flat bread found its way to Italy where, in the 18th century, the flat [More...] |
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