The invention of Pizza

 

Who does not love a cheesy pizza dripping with fresh mozzarella cheese  laden with a topping of fresh vegetables. Made your moth water? It mande my moth water too.

Pizza is a favorite with  children and adults alike! But do you know how this extremely delicious dish come into existence?!

Food of a region is actually a reflection of it's culture and life-style. Some delicious food items that came into existence have an interesting history behind them. 

They also have many dishes which resemble them.

The same is true for our pizza.

Pizza has actually been defined differently be different historians.

While the Italians are credited for making the first pizza, the roots of this dish can be tracked back to the Egyptians who ate flatbread baked on the oven.

Another dish similar to pizza and also considered it's precursor  can be traced  to the Greeks who ate baked flatbread topped with olive oil and spices. Today it is called the focaccia bread.

The first pizza with which we are familiar was first invented in Naples in Italy.

This was when King Umbrio along with his Queen Margherita came to Naples, the baker Raffele Esposito was asked to make a pizza. Since he was serving this to the royals, he decided to be innovative and topped the pizza with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil. That pizza till date is known as the Margherita pizza and is loved by cheese lovers.

This pizza is also credited as the first ever pizza delivery. Even though historians note that vendors sold flatbread with toppings long before that in naples.

However pizza only became popular when the Italians crossed the Atlantic and brought this cheesy cuisine to the United States. The Americans took quick notices of the unique flavours and pizzerias started popping up all over America.

After the World War II, when the soldiers returned home, Pizza became extremely popular for the soldiers had grown to love this dish while fighting overseas.

After this, Pizza started to become popular world-wide. 

The first pizzerria in America was G.Lombardi's after the chef of the same name. The pizzeria still exists and pizza is still baked in the traditional mud oven.

After this various chefs started giving different flavours to the pizza and began cooking in their own local style. A wonderful exams of this is the Siccalian pizza of Siccaly. 

Today pizza's are eaten all over the world in different styles in different countries.

In India, the Domino's cheese burst pizza us most popular along with Pizza Hut.

So bake it the way you want, you can never go wrong with a cheesy pizza!!!

So children next time when you order a pizza, don't forget to share the story with your family and friends.