The earliest forms of pizza evolved from flat, unleavened bread cooked in mud ovens and topped with olive oil and native spices. An ancient food traces have been found during archeological digs in brick oven in Pompeii and Egypt-civilizations from over 279 years ago.
Traditional pizzas of Italy rely on the wonderful Mediterranean ingredients that are so plentiful – sun-ripened, tomatoes, golden olive oil, fresh herbs and cheeses are the most well known.
Pizza now has risen to become a sophisticated way to eat a wealth of delicious ingredients with exotic shellfish, oriental vegetables and spices. New York City is the home to the first pizzeria in America. The founding fathers of pizza were Italian immigrants but the ingredients they found in their new country differed from those they know in Naples.
In the past century pizza accompanied Italian migrants and now travels with professional pizza chefs. Pizza that used to be consumed by a migrant poor at home or during lunch breaks at work is now the food of everyone and consumed in a proper pizzeria.
Pizza: From Italy to International stage
