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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Pizza and pasta was eaten in Italy way before the introduction of tomatoes. They used olive oil instead.
(not that Pizza and pasta is all there is to Italian cooking)
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From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
Pizza was intially the name given to flatbread sold to the poor on street corners. It did no intially contain cheese, oil, or tomatoes.
Anything remotely resembling a modern pizza was not produced until the late 1700s. The dish commonly called pizza today, which has bread, tomato sauce, and importantly cheese, was not created until 1889.
Spreading some oilve oil on bread is hardly a novel concept that belongs to any one culture. That's where the roots of modern day pizza come from, but there's little in common with that and a modern pizza. That's more a history of the term "pizza" as oppossed to the modern food, which was created in 1889.