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Originally Posted by blankall
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. |
from the wiki article:
The veracity of the royal pizza is then in doubt, and a mention of a pizza in 1847 with “basil, muzzarella, and tomatoes” shows that this combination was in any event already in existence prior to 1889.
so at least since 1847, likely even before that (I don't know how likely were southern-Italy peasants to keep long lasting records of their recipes).
And that's jut pizza (compared to a burger, if you will).