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Pizza Is A Famous Italian Dish |
| Date Added: April 14, 2010 01:57:12 PM |
| Author: prioadm98 |
| Category: Education And Reference: Reference |
| Pizza is an oven-cooked, flat, disc-shaped bread usually covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella and a variety of meats, salamis, seafood, cheeses, vegetables and herbs, which depends on one's taste and culture. Pizza has been known since antiquity in various forms and garnished with herbs, olives, raisin, honey, or nuts. The word pizza in Italian means any kind of flat bread or pie - either fried or cooked. Though there are many types of pizza in the Mediterranean area, it is Naples that was the first to witness the appearance of pizza, after the tomato appeared on the table in the XVIII century. Naples has a great many records related to pizza since 1000. Earlier, pizzas were garnished with garlic and olive oil, or cheese and anchovies, or small local fish. Pizzas were cooked on the open fire and at times were folded in the form of a calzone. The first pizzerias were opened in Naples. They were installed with wood-burning ovens that were heated with lava stones from Vesuvius. The chefs of those times neglected pizza as a dish, since it was mainly made by the poor. Still, when pizzas covered with tomato appeared in the 1770s, pizza gained popularity even among Italian royals. The popularity of pizza was depicted in the Neapolitan folklore. Simple to bake and economical, it grew into a favourite dish of the nation. A famous episode extended the popularity of pizza over the borders of Naples. In 1889 Italian Queen Margherita paid a visit to the city. She was told about pizza and wanted to taste it. Famous cook Don Raffaele helped by his wife was asked to cook pizza for the royalties. They baked three pizzas: one with basil and cheese; one with garlic, oil and tomato; and one with basil, mozzarella and tomato. The queen impressed by the colors of the third pizza (it resembled the national flag) liked it very much. Since that time this type of pizza has been known as Pizza Margherita. At the beginning of the previous century, the first pizzerias appeared in the United States due to a wave of Italian immigration, and became very popular with U.S. Citizens. However, even these days the most delicious pizza is baked in Naples. |
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