Do you consider yourself to be a pizza expert? Whether you prefer thin-crust or deep-dish, here are 6 incredible facts about pizza that you should know.
1. The First Pizza
Pizza is an ancient Greek and Egyptian dish consisting of flatbread boiled with olive oil and spices on top. It wasn't until the late 18th century that Italians added tomatoes to the dish.
2. Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers
In 1835, when he visited Naples, he noticed that the poor of the city ate nothing but watermelon in the summer and pizza in the winter.
3. How the Word Pizza Originated
Pizza has been around for over a thousand years, first appearing in a Latin text written in southern Italy in 997 CE.
4.Dough-spinning Is An Art Form
Do you think it's easy to spin pizza dough? Reconsider your position. Dough-spinning has its own professional sports event, the World Pizza Championships, where pizza teams compete in acrobatic dough-spinning contests.
There is a World Pizza Championship that holds five different kinds of competitions that are - Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing, Fastest Dough, Largest Dough Stretch, Fastest Pizza Box Folding and the Pizza Triathlon.
5. “Pizza Margherita”
The name 'Margherita Pizza' comes from Queen Margherita of Savoy, who requested a pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil toppings from master pizza chef Raffaele Esposito in 1889.
6. 'Pizza Brain'
Philadelphia has a pizza museum that is home to the world’s largest collection of pizza memorabilia. Guinness World Records declared the collection to be "the world's largest collection of pizza-related items" in 2011.
Bonus information! On Amazon, there are 26,484 books about pizza.
If you search for "Pizza Books" on Amazon, you will be bombarded with 26,484 results. There must be a lot of people who enjoy reading about pizza!
Source: pizzaneed
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