Pizza

Speaking about pizza is not speaking about something that is being forgotten. Pizza has turned out to be a worldwide dish since the Second Word War and it doesn’t seem as if it was to change in a near future.

Let's begin with the origin of pizza. The Persian were probably the ones who first had the idea of putting vegetables on large flat pieces of bread, and they could have introduce pizza to the ancient Greeks. After the Greeks, some ancient Roman books did speak about "a round dough with oil, herbs and honey, which is cooked in a oven". There have also been found similar things to "pizza ovens" in vanished Roman cities like Pompei. Even "pizza shops" have been found there.

Pizza spread later over all the Mediterranean countries. In some places these large pieces of bread were flatter and in some others thicker, but the idea was everywhere alike: bread, ingredients on it and it all was coked in the oven. For centuries there was one vital ingredient missing: the first tomatoes from South America wouldn’t be brought to Europe until the sixteenth century. It was the nineteenth century when a baker from Naples, Rafaele Esposito, first began to sell the modern tomato pizzas. He was asked to make a special pizza for the visit of the Italian Kings in 1889, and so the first pizza Margarita would be created, named after the Queen.

Pizza became one of the favourite dishes in Italy. But it wasn’t until after the Second World War, when thousands of American soldiers went home from Europe, that pizza became an international dish. Soon there were pizzerias all over the United States spreading the idea around the world. At the present, the average American eats nearly ten kilos of pizza a year.

Pizza has usually a round form and is cocked for nearly 3 minutes in the oven. The ingredients of the pizza Margarita are mozzarella, tomato sauce, basil and olive oi. It may also be made with more ingredients, like salami, anchovy, ham, pepper, olive, mushroom, or onion.

Pizza is best eaten hot, but it can also be eaten cold, in a picnic for example.

Today technology has done a good work so people can enjoy delicious frozen pizzas.

This dish can be easily adapted to each country. There are many different receipts of pizza at the different places of the world, his simplicity and adaptability may be the secret of its success.