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The migration
- From the 1930s onward, a number of Neapolitans moved northward, taking their cuisine with them.
- When Allied soldiers invaded Italy in 1943, they so liked the pizza that they asked for it wherever they went.
- After the war, tourists became increasingly curious about Italian food, including pizza.
- In America, by the end of the 19th century, Italian emigrants had reached the East Coast, and in 1905 the first pizzeria was opened in New York City.
- Shortly after the US entered World War II, a Texan opened Chicago pizzeria. He offered the dish with a thicker crust and with more toppings, usually with cheese at the bottom and chunky tomato sauce on top.
- In the 1950s, the pizza became more domesticated. Frozen pizza was designed to be taken home and baked at will.
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History of Pizza
Pizza - pieces of flatbread, topped with savories - was a simple and tasty meal for those who could not afford plates.
- Early pizzas appear in Virgil's Aeneid. Aeneas and his crew ate thin wheaten cakes with mushrooms and herbs scattered on them.
- In the 18th century Naples, p...
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Pizzas gain popularity
While on a visit to Naples in 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita grew tired of the complicated French dishes they were served. Three sorts of pizza were offered to the queen: one with lard, caciocavallo, and basil; another with cecenielli; and a third with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basi...
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The world's favorite fast food
Pizza is the world's favorite fast food, with some three billion pizza sold every year in the US alone.
The story of how pizza became so popular reveals much about the history of migration, economics, and technological change.
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Pizzas were scorned
For a long time, pizzas were associated with poverty and scorned by food writers.
In 1831, Samuel Morse described pizza as a ‘species of the most nauseating cake … covered over with slices of pomodoro or tomatoes, and sprinkled with little fish and black pepper and I know not what othe...
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The Story Of Pizza
- Everyone's favourite pie was first eaten by the tribes in neolithic times, who put crude batter over the campfire stones.
- The Greeks were known to feast on cheese pies, with a crust that worked as a handle. They called their ‘fermented pastry’ as pikte, which later evolved...
Big innovations of the 1930s
- While the 1920s were the era of the automobile, the construction of roads took off in the 1930s with multilane engineering marvels, including the George Washington, Golden Gate, and Bay Bridges, cutting travel times.
- Electrification surged in the 1930s. Power was brought to farms. ...
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