Historia De La Pizza

Pizza is a baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow bread covered with seasoned tomato sauce, cheese, and often other toppings such as sausage or olive. that has existed since timeimmemorial in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. The term 'pizza' first appeared "in a Latin text from the southern Italian town of Gaeta in 997 AD, which claims that a tenant of certain property isto give the bishop of Gaeta, "twelve pizzas", every Christmas day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday,". The word pizza is believed to be from an Old Italian word meaning "a point," which in turnbecame 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 flourwith 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. After cooking, it was seasoned with a variety of differenttoppings 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 anassortment of toppings.
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 inthe 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 diPietro baked what he called "pizza" especially for the visit of Italian King Umberto I and Queen Margherita, he resembled the colors of the Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green(basil). This kind of pizza has been named after the Queen as Pizza Margherita . He was the first to add cheese
By the 17th Century, pizza had achieved a local popularity among visitors to Naples who...