If even today you have declined an invitation to dinner to dedicate yourself to the beloved paired pizza + film, then this collection of recipes is for you. Yes, really you who you would eat it every night, that you cannot resist to taste a slice even when you are abroad and that you know by heart the menu of the pizzeria in the house. But before turning off the phone, turning on the music and starting to knead, read our 10 interesting facts about pizza and its history. You will love her even more!
Pizza margherita was born in Naples in 1889. Raffaele Esposito and his wife Rosa Brandi, owners of a pizzeria in Via Sant’Anna di Palazzo, paid homage to Queen Margherita, wife of King Umberto I, with a tricolor pizza based on tomato, basil and mozzarella. The history of the sailor is more ancient, which was written as early as 1734. It owes its name not to fish (which in fact does not appear among the ingredients), but to the fact that it was eaten by sailors returning to the port.
The first pizzas ever date back much earlier though. The Saracens brought spelled pizzas in the Torre del Greco area: the basic ingredient was then replaced with wheat and seasoned with oil and garlic. The tomato made its triumphal entry on the pizza only after the discovery of America.
There first pizzeria was opened to Naples in 1738. There Port'Alba he supplied the peddlers who went around the city selling his pizzas. More than 90 years later, it was the first to offer tables and chairs for its customers. It seems that here they ate Gabriele D’Annunzio, King Ferdinando di Borbone, Francesco Crispi and Benedetto Croce.
Although it sounds strange, in his early days he had more success in the US than in Italy. What was in fact underestimated and consumed together with other street foods, became a daydream in America. When we hear about "pizza effect", We are referring to a local phenomenon that succeeds first abroad compared to the country of origin. To give this name to the effect the anthropologist Agehananda Bharati, to tell the success of yoga in the West.
The Americans' obsession with our recipe seems to continue. Currently they are the biggest pizza eaters with a quantity of over 13 kilos of pizza per person per year. We, who have the silver medal in the world, consume "only" 7.6 kilos per capita.
There first pizzeria in New York was opened in 1905 by the emigrant Gennaro Lombardi. The intuition of the first successful pizza chef brought the Neapolitan recipe to the Big Apple just 15 years after the invention of the daisy. And it was a triumph.
Sergey Brin, the creator of Google, in the mid-90s he created a service for ordering pizza via the internet. It was a total flop that forced him to devote himself to a new activity. Like creating the number one search engine in the world.
The first company to successfully carry out Brin's dream was Pizza Hut, which in 1994 started first to sell pizza online. It was also one of the first examples of e-commerce in the world.
There NASA has invested 125 thousand dollars on creating a 3D printer to make pizza. The idea is that it can work by mixing some powdered foods and water, allowing astronauts to enjoy a good slice of pizza even in space.
About money. The most expensive pizza in the world was bought in 2009 by programmer Laszlo Hanyecz who paid for two pizzas at home 10 thousand bitcoins: now they amount to 126 million euros. Suns 8300 euros instead it is the money required for a Luigi XIII, the pizza invented by the pizza maker of Agropoli Renato Viola. The very expensive recipe has a diameter of 20 cm, a 72-hour leavening and a dressing based on DOP buffalo mozzarella, Australian pink salt, caviar, lobster, prawns and champagne.
