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Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, between the 16th and mid-18th century. [2] [3] The word pizza was first documented in 997 AD in Gaeta [4] and successively in different parts of central and southern Italy.
Frank became a franchisee of Papa John's Pizza in 1994. [2] By 2001, he owned 133 locations. Based in Houston, his company runs stores in Kansas, Arizona, Missouri, California, Texas and Hawaii, including several in his hometown of Wichita and the suburbs of Derby and Andover, under the franchise name PJ Wichita LLC., before selling the franchise to then Franchise President Terry Newman.
[31] [32] The first mention of the word pizza seemingly comes from a notarial document written in Latin and dating to 997 CE from Gaeta, demanding a payment of "twelve pizzas, a pork shoulder, and a pork kidney on Christmas Day, and 12 pizzas and a couple of chickens on Easter Day". [16] Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in ...
A single people's day celebrated with jajangmyeon, the black noodle dish which gave the day its name. November 11 Pepero Day: Begun in 1994, this is an observance in South Korea similar to Valentine's Day, but held on November 11. The original purpose of the day was to exchange peperos with each other in hopes of becoming taller and thinner ...
A book from 1799 narrows pizza’s birthday even further: It describes pizza as being a dough with tomato sauce and cheese, so we know it was invented by at least then.
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]
[2] [3] Ed LaDou was the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in Los Angeles. [4] He also developed the first menu for the American chain restaurant California Pizza Kitchen. [4] The invention of the California-style pizza begins with a Berkeley, California, pizza restaurant, Chez Panisse, and its owner, Alice Waters. [5]
As of February 2017, there were more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day. As of October 2020 [update] , YouTube is the second-most popular website in the world, behind Google , according to Alexa Internet . [ 1 ]