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Pizza today is an Italian dish with a flat dough-based base and toppings, with significant Italian roots in History. A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flatbread known to the Romans as panis focacius, to which toppings were then added. [1]
The terms dessert pizza and sweet pizza are used for a variety of dishes resembling a pizza, including chocolate pizza and fruit pizza. [81] [82] Some are based on a traditional yeast dough pizza base, [83] while others have a cookie-like base [84] and resemble a traditional pizza solely in having a flat round shape with a distinct base and ...
Pizza napoletana (in Italian), pizza napulitana (in Neapolitan) Type: Pizza: Place of origin: Italy: Region or state: Naples, Campania: Main ingredients: Although in the strictest tradition of Neapolitan cuisine there are only two variations (pizza Margherita and pizza marinara), a great number of Neapolitan pizza varieties exist, defined by ...
Pizza quattro formaggi (Italian: [ˈkwattro forˈmaddʒi]; lit. ' four cheese pizza '), also known as pizza ai quattro formaggi, is a variety of pizza in Italian cuisine that is topped with a combination of four types of cheese, usually melted together, with (rossa, lit. ' red ') or without (bianca, lit. ' white ') tomato sauce.
Clockwise from top left; some of the most popular Italian foods: Neapolitan pizza, carbonara, espresso, and gelato. Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine [1] consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora.
It has been claimed the pizza marinara was introduced around the year 1735 (in 1734 according to European Commission regulation 97/2010), and was prepared using olive oil, cherry tomatoes, basil, oregano, and garlic at that time, [6] [7] and that historically it was known to be ordered commonly by poor sailors, and made on their ships due to it being made from easily preservable ingredients.
Patsy's Pizzeria was founded in what used to be the predominantly Italian neighborhood of East Harlem, or Italian Harlem, in 1933 by Pasquale "Patsy" Lanceri. [1] When it opened it was one of New York's earliest pizzerias along with Lombardi's, Totonno's and John's. [3] Patsy's claims to have originated the idea of selling pizza by the slice. [4]
Numerous regional variations have evolved, with many bearing only a casual resemblance to the Italian original. Pizza is a popular item produced by many small restaurants as well as several large pizza restaurant chains. The United States pizza restaurant industry was worth $37 billion in 2015. [2] [3]