Pizza from Italy is probably one of the most popular dishes in the world. You can find it almost everywhere, in many variations, adapted to local tastes and customs.
Salty or sweet, Italian pizza is a dish that, even today, continues to evolve and has little to do with the original version. Taste these pizzas on the coloring pictures below. Happy coloring
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This Italian dish is said to date back to late antiquity. The word “pizza” is said to have appeared in 997.
Its origin is controversial: for some people, the term comes from the German bizoo which means “piece of bread”, and for others, from the Greek pitta, which means “fouace, galette”.
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This flat dough resembles many of the bread that is still found today throughout the various countries of the Mediterranean basin.
Over time and depending on the region, this “bread” has been accompanied by ingredients. There is, therefore, no real city of origin for pizza, but it was in Italy that it developed in the Middle Ages.
With the first counters and trade between countries, tomatoes and buffalo (whose milk is used to make mozzarella) arrived in Italy, more precisely in Naples.
The Neapolitans were the first to cover their bread with tomatoes. Initially, this simple dish was sold in the streets of Naples and in pizzerias where this bread, baked in a wood-fired oven, was made, just like a butter ham in a bakery.
It was in 1780 that the first pizza in modern Italy was born, the pizza Margherita (bread, tomatoes, cheese), made by Raffaele Esposito in honor of Queen Margherita. She was very fond of her pizzas.
This dish, until then eaten in the street, acquired later its letters of nobility, and has not ceased since then to diversify.