Do You Know? History of Pizza

History of Pizza begins when the first Greeks to make bread dough are large, round and flat by using a mixture of spices and oil. At that time the tomato has not been found, so it is not used in the mixture.

In the 18th century, this type of bread is becoming known in Italy as well as sold on the streets and markets under the name 'pizza'. Pizza at the time did not have any toping but just like white bread is round. This bread is very easy to make and the cost is cheap, because it is mostly sold to poor people in the area of Naples.

In about 1889, Queen Margherita accompanied by her husband Umberto I, traveling around the Italian kingdom. During that trip, he saw a lot of people who eat bread in the form of big, round and flat, especially the farmers. Curious, the queen ordered the guards to buy bread, it appeared that the queen loved it so every time you exit the kingdom, then he would eat the bread. This became the talk of the kingdom, because they consider highly inappropriate for a queen to eat peasant food.

Queen Margherita ignore the protest among the palace, he even brought a special chef Rafaelle Esposito's most famous for his pizza and hired him on the court to make a variety of pizzas according to the wishes of the queen. Chef Rafaelle Esposito made ​​a special pizza for the queen by using a variety of toppings such as tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil leaves and red, white and green (in accordance with the Italian flag colors.) Pizza was later to become the queen's favorite pizza and named Pizza Margherita, because the queen is like pizza so she began to become very popular among the people of Italy. After that pizza became increasingly popular throughout Italy, and began to be enjoyed by all circles of society. Types of pizza toppings are developed by each region so that more and diverse. But still known as a Neapolitan pizza capital of the world because this is where developing pizza and famous to the whole world.