Pizza – The Great American Pastime

No matter where you go today, one of the most popular dishes is pizza. The popularity of this dish is so renowned that there are thousands of restaurants all over the world that make and sell this product. There are even thousands of grocery stores that cater to the requirement of this dish. Although this dish is popular, few people know the history of this dish. Did you know that the earliest form of this delicious food appeared in the year of 10th century BC in the area of Gujarat in India? This is the place where the Returned Soldiers took shelter after the defeat of the great Mongol hordes? In the year 12uably 1219 they built a city called Ahucca in the Canyon of Tirana in southern Italy. This city constructed the earliest model of a pizza. Today in Tirana, Italy, there is a National Pizza Festival which is the most popular event commemorating the Feast of the Coirione.

Today the gastronomy has grown into a very popular pastime in the United States. Today you will find many pizza counters installed in malls and in many cities. The now traditional kind of pizza is made of flat bread that is covered with all kinds of toppings and then baked to perfection. But have you ever wondered where the recipe for this most popular food originally came from? You may not have known about the history of the pizza but here are a few facts that you should know about the food you are enjoying today.

The word Pizziare is a very old Italian word and according to him was coined in the year 1889. The word means “a point” and the artiact of the topping is to bring out the point of the bread to form a shape similar to a pizza. This is when the term pizza was known as tomato pie.

The western cultures have begun to make their own distinction between the true Italian pizza and what is now known as the pizza. The early Greeks and Romans used to eat flat bread with salads or fish with flat bread. They believed that the flat bread was a blessing from the gods.

In those times the pies were seasoned with onions and spices. From those times the pizzas were cooked on the spit of the fire and not in the oven. They were baked only in the night but gathered most of their ingredients and were baked the next day.

When Napolitano pizza was created in the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of pizza was to add a crust with the toppings of the Italian pie, to make it more appealing to the western cultures. university students had experimented with different pizza recipes and found out that the topping were not prepared on the spit but were put on the cooked pizza on the table.

In the earlier period, the Italians pizza was prepared with buffalo cheese and anchovies, which are the ingredients used by the Italians. Buffalo cheese and anchovies are the common ingredients of the original pizza, which came from the ancient Roman culture.

The pizza was a unleavened bread and the dough was prepared with olive oil and rosemary, which is the traditional ingredients of the Neapolitan. But after a while, the traditional ingredients were abandoned and the pizza became an instant dish, enjoyed by everyone.

For a while there are no distinct boundaries to the pizza. Everyone might be talking about the kinds of toppings which are used, but the ingredients are the same for all the chefs. The pennies which were used to pay the workers who made the pizzas are the same today, as pizzas are also composed of vegetables, cheese and other ingredients.

The pizza is a good chance for vegetarians to eat a very healthy meal. The vegetarians will not miss the meat and will continue to eat this delicious food as it is one of the main choices of foods, besides the pasta which is a common favourite. The fresh ingredients will seem strange to those who are used to the foods from North America, but pizza is a great chance for a change of taste and perspective.

For those who increasingly are becoming conscious of the impact of eating and living healthy, pizza is a great choice to make a change.