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Pizza: The Soul of Italy

Pizza originated in Italy and has two main regional styles - thin crust pizza from Naples and thicker crust pizza from Rome. While flatbreads and herb-topped breads have existed in Mediterranean cultures for centuries, modern pizza is attributed to Raffaele Esposito, a baker from Naples who created a pie topped with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Italy in 1889. Pizza is now one of the most popular foods worldwide but remains closely tied to Italian culture and cuisine.

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Pizza: The Soul of Italy

Pizza originated in Italy and has two main regional styles - thin crust pizza from Naples and thicker crust pizza from Rome. While flatbreads and herb-topped breads have existed in Mediterranean cultures for centuries, modern pizza is attributed to Raffaele Esposito, a baker from Naples who created a pie topped with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Italy in 1889. Pizza is now one of the most popular foods worldwide but remains closely tied to Italian culture and cuisine.

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PIZZA: THE SOUL OF ITALY

There are not too many nations that can say their national dish has become an international phenomenon. Italy has two such dishes, pasta and of course pizza. In America pizza usually falls into two categories: thick and cheesy Chicago style or thin and more traditional New York pizza. In Italy pizza also falls into two distinct categories: Italian pizza and the rest of the world. It might seem silly considering the basic ingredients, but one taste of a true Italian pizza and that's it. You will never feel the same about this simple and delicious food again. Pizza in its most basic form as a seasoned flatbread has a long history in the Mediterranean. Several cultures including the Greeks and Phoenicians ate a flatbread made from flour and water. The dough would be cooked by placing on a hot stone and then seasoned with herbs. The Greeks called this early pizza plankuntos and it was basically used as an edible plate when eating stews or thick broth. It was not yet what we would call pizza today but it was very much like modern focaccia. These early pizzas were eaten from Rome to Egypt to Babylon and were praised by the ancient historians Herodotus and Cato the Elder. Considered a peasant's meal in Italy for centuries we cannot say who invented the very first pizza pie. Food historians agree that pizza like dishes were eaten by many peoples in the Mediterranean including the Greeks and Egyptians. However, modern pizza has been attributed to baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples. In 1889, Esposito who owned a restaurant called the Pizzeria di Pietro baked what he called "pizza" especially for the visit of Italian King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. Today pizza is one of the most famous food in the world.

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