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Pizza originated in Italy and was originally an Italian food, but it has become popular worldwide over the past century. While pizza may date back to ancient Greece or Rome, it was not until around 1000 AD in Naples that it took the form of a flatbread called "picea." Tomatoes were not added as a main ingredient until the 1600s when they were introduced from South America. A famous version of pizza, called "Margherita," was created in 1889 for the Italian king and queen using the colors of the Italian flag. Pizza remained mostly an Italian specialty until the 1950s-60s when Italian immigrants spread it to northern Italy and beyond, leading to its global popularity today.

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Pizza originated in Italy and was originally an Italian food, but it has become popular worldwide over the past century. While pizza may date back to ancient Greece or Rome, it was not until around 1000 AD in Naples that it took the form of a flatbread called "picea." Tomatoes were not added as a main ingredient until the 1600s when they were introduced from South America. A famous version of pizza, called "Margherita," was created in 1889 for the Italian king and queen using the colors of the Italian flag. Pizza remained mostly an Italian specialty until the 1950s-60s when Italian immigrants spread it to northern Italy and beyond, leading to its global popularity today.

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One of the most popular foods around the world today is pizza.

Pizza restaurants are popular


everywhere from Beijing to Moscow to Rio, and even in the United States, the home of the hamburger,
there are more pizza restaurants than hamburger places. This worldwide love for pizza is a fairly recent
phenomenon. Before the 1950s, pizza was a purely Italian food, with a long history in southern Italy.

The origins of pizza are somewhat uncertain, though they may go back to the Greeks (pita bread) or
even earlier. Under the Roman Empire, Italians often ate flat circles of bread, which they may have
flavored with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. By about the year 1000 A.D. in the area around Naples, this
bread had a name: picea.

This early kind of pizza lacked one of the main ingredients we associate with pizza: the tomato. In fact,
tomatoes did not exist in Europe until the sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers brought them back
from South America. The Spanish showed little interest in tomatoes, but southern Italians soon began to
cultivate them and use them in cooking. At some point in the 1600s, Neapolitan tomatoes were added
to pizza, as it was known by then.

The next development in pizza making came about, according to legend, in June 1889, when a
Neapolitan pizza maker was asked to make pizza for the king and queen. To show his patriotism, he
decided to make it green, white, and red, like the Italian flag, using basil leaves, mozzarella, and tomato.
He named his pizza "Margherita," after the queen, and that is what this classic kind of pizza is still called
today.

In Italy, pizza remained a specialty of Naples and other areas of the south until well into the twentieth
century. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, when many southerners moved to the north to work in the new
factories, pizzerias opened up in many northern Italian cities. By the 1980s, they could be found all over
the country and pizza had become a part of the Italian way of life.

Today, pizza has become so common in so many countries that its Italian origins are often forgotten.
Indeed, the global versions of pizza made with all kinds of ingredients have little in common with the
Neapolitan original, as anyone knows who has tasted a pizza in Naples.

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