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Daniel
 
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Default The origin of pizza

I don't think this is OT: To get a real pizza, one shall cook it in a brick
oven stuffed with wood fire.
Do you know how and when pizza was invented?

It dates back to the peak of the Roman Empire might and wealth.
The rich Romans were used to organise huge parties with a lot of guests and
a lot of food.
Many more guests than their available porcelain, ceramic, wood and/or metal
dishes can accomodate.
So, it became a standard practice to serve the food over thin circular bread
especially backed for that.

For sure, those bread "dishes" were abosrbing all sort of sauces and
carrying quite a lot of leftover at the end of the party.

So, the Roman guests get used to take away their "dish" and give it to the
beggars and poor people who were queuing outside of the party place.

Back home, those poor people were warming up the bread and its "surface
content" over wood fire or in wood-stuffed ovens.

And that's pizza....
OK, recipes have been sophisticating this original pizza practice quite a
lot, but the principle remain the same: Thin slice of circular bread with
whatever you want on it, then brick oven...

The Frog footnote: THIN slice of bread. The one inch thick stuff you can get
at Pizza Hut is NOT pizza. Well, not the real original one.....It shall be
crispy!

Cheers
Daniel