Capricciosa is made with tomato, mozzarella, mushrooms, artichokes, capers, cooked or raw ham, and strictly black olives. This is one of my personal favorite pizza in Italy. Capricciosa is rich, delicious, and a big classic that I would pick every time possible, especially inRome! I highligh...
The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have since become popular and common in many areas of the world. In 2009, upon Italy's request, Neapolitan pizza was safeguarded in the European Union as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed dish. TheAssociazione Ver...
8. The biggest ever pizza was over 1,200 square metres! According to the Guiness Book of Records, the largest ever recorded pizza was made in Rome, Italy in 2012, and had a total surface area of 1261.65 square metres! It was called 'Ottavia' after a Roman emperor, and was gluten free!
Neapolitan Pizza is the oldest and most traditional style of pizza. Flatbreads have existed in Italy since the days of the Roman Empire, but pizza as we know it today (dough topped with tomatoes and cheese) was invented in the 1700s. Naples, at the time, was exceedingly poor. The impove...
According to historians, the pizza was invented in the 10th century in the town of Naples, Italy. The original pizza was, however, nothing like we know it today. The Romans would create it from placenta bread and then cover it with several layers of sprinkled cheese, spread sauce, and her...
Pizzeria da Attilio’s star-shaped pizzas shine brightly in the Naples pizza galaxy. | Image: ©2foodtrippers Pizzeria da Attilio is a must-visit for pizza fans who make the journey to the city where modern pizza was invented. Attilio Bachetti, a third generation pizzaiolo, runs his fam...
They’ve made some landmark rulings in their time—on where the martini was invented and whether or not chicken soup is the Jewish penicillin. GRABER: And in 1991, the court gathered to debate a serious question: Is pizza originally Italian or Chinese? TWILLEY: The Chinese case was ...
It’s another pizza from Naples, though, that has the neatest pedigree. When Queen Margherita came to visit Naples in 1889, she was charmed by a local pizza baker who had made, in her honor, a pizza with the colors of the new flag of the just-unified Italy—red tomatoes, white mozzar...
after World War II that pizza began to become popular with most Americans. Frozen pizza was invented in the 1950s by Minneapolis pizzeria owner Rose Totino; Pizza Hut opened its first restaurant in Wichita, Kansas in 1958; Little Ceasar's followed a year later, and Domino's came in 1960....
It has been claimed that the Bianca Pizza was invented in the town of Millesimo in Romagna but this is not supported by any evidence. Today, a Bianca Pizza is made with equal parts of 00 flour and water and requires the toppings to be placed on top before baking. Traditionally, some for...