About Pizza - By: XennMarketing

PIZZA HISTORY

When we hear the word “Pizza”, ITALY is immediately associated with it and comes into our minds, but to tell you the truth, this is not the land in which this food was originated. Its history goes back to Greece, country of flat breads, where lower-class people were looking to eat something consistent, delicious and cheap. Dough made of wheat and several spices combined in it, gave a different flavor to the already mentioned breads and that is how pizza was born. Later on, this crisp dough was served in the ancient Greece squares to satisfy everyone, who was looking to please their appetite.

If we go back in time, we can find that the ingredient, that changed the history of cooking books about pizza forever, was the tomato. This key ingredient was originally from America (fruit that the Europeans considered poisonous and with magic powers) and over time, we see that tomato became a basic ingredient to prepare the sauce, which harmoniously forms the perfect flavor that we all like and enjoy when we eat a pizza slice.

As Greece and Italy are relatively close and thanks to the constant trips of traders, this flat bread found a way to move to Naples, a city in southern Italy where the very first pizzas were made. The combination of flat breads with the now called tomato sauce and other natural ingredients, such as onions, garlic and melted cheese became very popular among the people and were sold in markets and streets.

But how pizza became the most popular food in the world? It is a very peculiar story that helped pizza to become the most known, most eaten and most sold food over the years.

One day, Queen Margherita of Italy went with her husband on an inspection trip in their Kingdom, when she suddenly noticed a lot of people eating an unusual type of bread and asked her guards to bring her some to try. She loved it and asked a very famous Italian chef to prepare this dish for her, which he did. Words were spread that the Queen's favorite dish was the pizza and soon became everybody's choice.

It was sold for breakfast, lunch and dinner and that is how the tradition in Italy started. Pizza again found its way to move and spread to France, Spain and the United Kingdom and went around the globe with the first Italian immigrants to the United States. All kinds of variations and extra ingredients were added with the years to the original pizza, but who can complain when we have a lot of varieties that suits our demands?

Today, pizza is an Italian trademark; it holds a record in the Guinness book of Records and we even have an international Pizza Day, which is celebrated every February 9th.

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