Hi there, my favorite food is pizza, I love the endless possibilities when it comes to toppings.
Pizza is delicious! I love vegetable and cheeze pizza the most!
Definitely a good one. I just recently found out that modern day pizza was invented in Naples. Of course other variants of the pizza have evolved in other parts of the world though.
Really? That's neat! I knew it came from Italy but I never knew it came from Naples!
Oh yeah, everyone associates pizza with Italy. Pizza was originally eaten in the country of Italy but that changed after World War 2 when troops stationed in Italy came to enjoy pizza and other foods there.
Oh that makes sense! Maybe after World War II was when pizza started migrating to a ton of other different places.
History of pizza
The history of pizza begins in antiquity, when various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flat bread known to the Romans as , to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza developed in Naples when tomato was added to the focaccia in the late 18th century.
The word "pizza" was first documented in 997 A.D. in Gaeta and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy. Pizza was mainly eaten in Italy and
baked pasta, as well as vegetable soups, green salads, desserts, and soda or Japanese tea. There is also a strong tradition of using Tabasco sauce on cooked pizzas.
Pizza toppings in Japan also differ from that found in the United States. One of the unique pizza toppings found in Japan is squid. Seafood may be found on pizza everywhere, but having squid as the focal ingredient is unique to Japan.
Local crust variants also exist, for instance mochi pizza (crust made with Japanese mochi cakes)