I just ate the traditional Italian dish that we all love....tomato sauce and cheese on a crust...you guessed it!  Pizza!
you cannot go wrong with pizza
That is so true.  I love less cheese and tons of veggies....every single one you can think of.  What toppings do you like?
it changes, but cheese is always constant
I hear ya.  I would love to travel to Naples, Italy where the modern pizza was invented and taste the real thing one day!
so there is a dividing line between modern and ancient pizza
Yes, pizza has been around longer than that, well, at least the term "pizza" and was first recorded in a manuscript in the 10th century.  Still in a town in Italy named Gaeta.
i wonder what the actual word "pizza" means
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
pea-flour dough placed over the piece of pizza, and moscato wine. The most popular variety of pizza is called "muzzarela" (mozzarella), similar to Neapolitan pizza (bread, tomato sauce and cheese), but made with a thicker "media masa" crust, triple cheese and tomato sauce, usually also with olives. It can be found on nearly every corner of the country; Buenos Aires is considered the city with the most pizza bars by person in the world. Other popular toppings include ham (