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The child of
Italy and America

Not every round pastry that fits under the door can be called a pizza

The answer to this question depends directly on what you consider pizza to be

Otherwise, we can trace the history of pizza back to the Stone Age, when the first man learnt how to make dough and
a mammoth sat on it
and the housewife decided to bake as is

Otherwise, we can trace the history of pizza back to the Stone Age, when the first man learnt how to make dough and a mammoth sat on it and the housewife decided to bake as is

Payment in stones or sticks?

Where’s fermented dino milk?
We ordered
the full combo!

There are a minimum number of mandatory ingredients that make a pizza a pizza. Yeast dough, cheese and tomatoes.

So a Marinara pizza is a minimal pizza, you can't take anything away from it, but you can add a lot. It's a pizza according to the Oxford dictionary.

British scientists have learnt...

A pizza without tomatoes
is not a pizza.
It's khachapuri!

A pizza without tomatoes
is not a pizza. It's khachapuri!

There is pizza bianca, white pizza, but last week I had fried sushi in batter. It's delicious, it's wonderful. It's not sushi, but it's a wonderful dish

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It's almost a pizza!

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Мамма Mia!
Where have you seen a pizza without tomatoes?

By 1522, tomatoes had made a dash across the ocean. Poor Neopolitans, who had no money for anything but flour, cheese from their own cows, herbs from the vegetable garden and tomatoes, which nobody needed at the time, created the first pizza

In the 18th century, pizza germinated in Southern Italy as a distinct dish, a primitive cheap fast food that caused squeamishness among all elegant travellers, domestic and foreign alike

It was the food of the working people. A flatbread, cheese, tomatoes, whatever was left over from dinner, usually fish. Garlic played a huge role in those days - it was necessary to repel the smell of other, shall we say, ingredients

‘M’ is marketing

It took a serious marketing effort by one man, Rafael Esposito, to turn this squalor into a symbol of Italy

Esposito made several variations of pizza for the bored Queen Margaret of Savoy with more decent toppings - white cheese, red tomato sauce and green basil leaves were the patriotic colours of the flag of the newly proclaimed united Italy

ITALIANS IN AMERICA

Between 1880 and 1914, more than 13 million Italians left their homeland and moved across the ocean. And pizza emigrated with them.

They opened grocery stores and restaurants to feed people just like them. And pizza is becoming popular in American cities simply because there are so many Italians there

Right now, approximately 5.5% of Americans are of Italian descent.
One in 20 is Italian!

It wasn't until 1911 that Pellegrin Artusi added a sheet to the classic cookbook with a recipe for pizza alla napoletana

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For the provided text I would like to thank blogger Julia Bolchakova