How to Brief History of Pizza?
Pizza, the way we now know, is a derivation from focaccia (from the Latin word for fire), flat bread, prepared in various forms since ancient times and garnished with spices, olives, fat, raisins, honey and nuts.
Word pizza in Italian identifies any type of flat bread or cake baked or fried. Although you will find various types of pitas or pizzas around the Mediterranean, in Naples that pizza in the form we know it today first came after the tomato appeared on the table in the year 1700. Naples has many records of pizza since around the year 1000 and the first mentions call laganae flat bread, and he later identified as Picea. At that time the pizza dressed with olive oil and garlic, or cheese and fish, or small local fish. In Naples, where pizza restaurant first opened, with a wood burning brick oven, covered with lava stones from Vesuvius. The chefs of the time ignored, because the pizza is considered as poor people eat, but a new combination with tomatoes, where the kitchen was closed around 1770, should lead to curiosity, even in the royal palace.Bourbon Ferdinand I, King of Naples, like the simple food of the people and into the pizza shop a sense of Antonio Testa. He liked it so he wanted to be included in the menu of pizza in court. He failed after opposition from his wife, Queen Maria Carolina.Pizza became very popular, deserves its place in Neapolitan folklore. A famous episode extended the popularity of pizza beyond the boundaries of the city of Naples.A famous cook by the name of Don Raffaele, assisted by his wife Donna Rosa, was invited to bake the pizza at the royal palace. They prepared three pizzas, typical of the time: one with cheese and basil, one with garlic, oil, and tomatoes, and one with mozzarella, basil and tomatoes. Queen, was impressed with the colors of the last pizza, which looked like the national flag, it is preferred that one. Since then this pizza is known as Pizza Margherita, and Don Raffaele is credited with the invention, even when we know that it’s there for a long time.
Pizza superior regarded as obtained by moderate variations in the simplest and most popular: Pizza Napoletana with tomato, garlic oil, and oregano, Pizza Margherita, Pizza Marinara with tomato, anchovies, capers and olives, and Four Seasons Pizza, divided into four quadrants, each dressed in different ways. Pizza with salami, pepperoni pizza called the Americans, are not found in the Calabria region south of Naples, where the type of hot sausage is produced.
