Italy sets strict pizza guidelines

Pizza's Colorful History

By far pizza has become America's favorite food over the
past 50 years. Million of pizza pies are eaten daily, but
how often do the people eating the food stop to consider the
history. The true origins of this fine cuisine are as
colorful as any good pizza pie heaping with toppings.

The common belief is that Italians invented the pizza,
however the origins go back to the ancient times.
Babylonians, Israelites, Egyptians and other ancient Middle
Eastern cultures were eating flat, un-leaven bread that had
been cooked in mud ovens. The bread was much like a pita,
which is still common in Greece and the Middle East today.
Further it is known that ancient Mediterranean people such
as the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians were eating the bread,
topped seasoned with olive oil and native spices.

The lower class of the Naples, Italy is believed to have
created pizza in a more familiar fashion. In the late 1800s
a Italian baker named Raffaele Esposito, was believed to
have created a dish for visiting royalty. According to the
story, the Italian monarch King Umberto and his consort,
Queen Margherita were touring the area. In order to impress
them and to show his patriotic fervor Raffaele chose to top
flat bread with food that would best represent the colors of
Italy: red tomato, white mozzarella cheese and green basil.
The king and queen were so impressed that word quickly
reached the masses. The end results were that the dish was
well received to the extent that others began to copy it.

By the beginning of the 1900's pizza made it's way to the
inner cities United States, thanks to Italian immigrants,
most notably New York and Chicago, due to those cities
having large Italian populations. Small cafes began
offering the Italian favorite. American soldiers further
prompted the dish to become very popular at the end of
World War II, having been exposed to it while serving on
the Italian front.

Today pizza has become just as American as baseball and
apple pie. Only because of its most recent origins is it
considered an Italian dish. Huge U.S. based multi-billion
dollar corporations should be thankful for the development
along with poor college students who can appreciate the fine
dining experience pizza has given them.

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