Italiano
When it comes to pizza, Italy comes to mind.
You may wonder, “Why? Isn’t that correct“?
Well, yes. Anyway…
Pizza has a very ancient history, with roots up to the early Middle Ages.
But… pizza was almost unknown in Northern Italy before the 1950s.
Paradoxically, it had more admirers in North America, thanks to the massive presence of immigrants from Southern Italy.
In the States it was by then a food appreciated not only in the streets of Manhattan and the Bronx, where there was a large community of Paisà, but throughout the North-East.
In 1944, a New York Times article described pizza as “one of the most popular dish in Southern Italy“. And, in 1947, a NYT journalist, with great foresight, assumed that “pizza could be as popular a snack as the hamburger”
In northern Italy, however, Pizza was unknown, at least until after the Second World War.
The first pizzerias began to open in the late 50s and early 60s (meanwhile, the Hawaiian Pizza with pineapple was invented in Ontario…).
And there are quite a few stories from American soldiers who, stationed north of Rome during the war, were surprised they couldn’t find any restaurant capable of preparing pizza…
Anyway… In the pic attached two wonderful margherita made by our friends of Pizzeria NastiEat, down in Naples.
Dough leavened with the Inox Bim retarder proofer, of course!
