Pizza is a unique dish suitable for any taste preferences and wallets. She celebrates birthdays and significant events, she is stuck in trouble. Everyone loves her. Pizza - and the imagination immediately draws a thin cake of a special dough, covered with soft cheese and favorite filling, you feel its aroma and you are eager to taste it. Pizza is tempting, seductive, loved.
It is mistakenly believed that the birthplace of pizza is Italy. By no means, even in ancient Egypt the “great-grandmother” of the current pizza was invented - a bread cake made with spices, used as a plate for meat or any other dishes, repeating its shape and color, the sun revered by the Egyptians.According to the same recipe, it was made in Greece, adding garlic, olive oil, various spices to the dough. It was in Greece that a tradition appeared to add cheese to this dish. Later, pizza ended up in the Roman Empire, where it was included in the menu not only of the patricians, but also of the legionnaires, and was very revered last in military campaigns.
And now the pizza is in Italy, where it becomes a national dish, gaining a name and even its own history of origin, supposedly it was invented in the family of a poor fisherman, where the mother had nothing to feed the children, then she took the rest of the dinner laid them on a bread cake and covered it all a mixture of tomatoes and cheese, dates back to the middle of the XVI century. Since then, pizza has become the food of the peasants, since it was cheap to cook and very satisfying, and the composition could be changed depending on the products of the home - fish, vegetables, cheese, only the composition of the dough did not change, it was traditionally made with an admixture of olive oil, cheese and spices, as well as never rolled out, pizza dough specifically “unwind” by weight by hand.
She came to the table of aristocrats because of love for this dish of Queen Margarita of Savoy, already in the 18th century, and this queen is credited with the Margarita pizza recipe, which the heroine of Julia Roberts adored in the film “Eat, Pray, Love.” Margarita is also credited with the decree on the creation of a special cutlery for absorbing pizza - a four-toed fork (traditional for our table), before the pizza went out into the light, the forks were three-toed.
In making pizza, Italians achieved mastery from the simplest - where only cheese and garlic are contained, to the closed Calzone pizza, or to the top of the pizza culinary skill called Four Seasons, when the cake is divided into four pieces, each of which has different ingredients and different tastes symbolizing the time of year. There is a law published in an Italian government newspaper stating that there are only three types of pizza: Margarita, Margarita Extra and Marinara, the recipes for these pizzas took three newspaper pages. In Italy, there is also the position of “pizza inspector”, checking pizzerias for the authenticity of the “Neapolitan” pizza cooked there. If someone violates the recipe, the inspector has the right to sue violators of traditional recipes.
Pizza came to America with Italian emigrants and won national love, and later worldwide love. Here the recipe for making dough changed, olive oil was replaced with vegetable oil, pizza was divided into thick or thin dough, chicken, bacon, sausage and pineapple were added to the filling (“topping” in Italian). The first pizzeria was opened in America in 1905, and not only emigrants, but also world-famous stars such as Frank Sinatra, Jerry Colonna and Dean Martin contributed to the popularization of this dish, the whole America hummed the words of his song “When the moon shines on you,” like a big pizza. " Greek pizza, Hawaiian, Chicago, pizza in New York, all this was born here, and it was the Americans who invented the frozen pizza semi-finished product for cooking at home.
Pizza also conquered Australia, where it began to add cottage cheese and eggs (which make up the traditional Australian breakfast), Japan, where it is sprinkled with dried tuna chips along with cheese, India, where curry chicken is added to pizza, and Brazil, where traditional cheese dishes are popular. pizza without the addition of meat ingredients and options for toppings with fruits, Mexico - thanks to which pizza with a spicy taste of chili peppers appeared.
Pizza came to Russia in the 90s, with the flow of American films and the emergence of fast foods. Now pizza is popular with all ages: it is loved by both old and young, it is served in cafes, restaurants, ordered in the office, cooked at home. Thanks to the huge number of species - everyone can choose what suits him and enjoy this international cake among his friends or gobble it up alone.
By the way, contrary to popular belief, pizza, although it belongs to the "genre" of fast food, is by no means a harmful product. Dietitians claim that Mediterranean cuisine is one of the most healthy in the world. Despite the presence of carbohydrates in the form of crust, pizza contains olive oil - and these are very useful and easily digestible polyunsaturated fatty acids. Vegetables are a great source of fiber, and cheese is calcium. The main thing, as with any food, is to know the measure.
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