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How pizza originated?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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Pizza is a baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow bread-like crust covered with seasoned tomato sauce, cheese, and often other toppings such as sausage or olive. The word pizza is believed to be from an Old Italian word meaning "a point," which in turn became the Italian word "pizzicare," which means "to pinch" or "pluck."

The pizza could have been invented by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, Romans, or anyone who learned the secret of mixing flour with water and heating it on a hot stone.

In one of its many forms, pizza has been a basic part of the Italian diet since the Stone Age. This earliest form of pizza was a crude bread that was baked beneath the stones of the fire. After cooking, it was seasoned with a variety of different toppings and used instead of plates and utensils to sop up broth or gravies. It is said that the idea of using bread as a plate came from the Greeks who ate flat round bread (plankuntos) baked with an assortment of toppings. It was eaten by the working man and his family because it was a thrifty and convenient food. Pizza is a type of bread........with tomato as a topping.

"The Pizza" mentioned above originated in Naples - Italy Pizza was founded by the greeks, then the napels came over a took it and then turned it in to pizza that we know of today by usesing mozzarella--- the napels created mozzaella

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The modern pizza was invented in June 1889 by Raffaele Esposito, a Neapolitan chef who wanted to honour Queen Margherita of Savoy. It was the very first "Pizza Margherita", and was topped with fresh tomato, mozzarella cheese, olive oil and basil, to represent the colours of the flag of Italy.

The actual word "pizza" is first recorded as early as the year 997, in Medieval Latin. The word referred to a simple flatbread in Naples which was not actually eaten, but was used as a gauge by bakers to test the temperature of an oven.

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The very first pizza ever made was originally a Neapolitan pie with tomato , from the town of Naples , Italy. .. It wasn't until 1889 that cheese was added to the pizza.

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Because It was Maby

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it was invented for queen margarita.

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Because they are very nice to eat:)

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I am thinking of 1911

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to eat

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B be b n me

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