| | | - - | | | | | | | | A CALLED WORLD PIZZA |  | | | | Who of you you/he/she has never asked the origin of this simple but savory dish, that tickles nose, palate and eyes, and is it pleasant to noble and plebeians? | | | | The pizza has three thousand years of history. All the civilizations have known different forms of pizza breads, you crush and similar that saw in I mix him among flour, water and the most varied seasonings a source of fundamental nourishment in the human feeding. The antiquity, that that he/she saw the bloom some civilizations that leaned out on the Mediterranean Sea, offers above all therefore an ample harvest of examples of those that you/they can consider him the ancestors of the pizza which we know her/it to us. | | | |  | | From Egypt to classical Greece to the ancient Rome and Pompeii it is everything a to proliferate of foods that recall both in the composition that in the cooking our pizza. In ancient Egypt it was custom to celebrate the birthday of the Faraone consuming a squeezing seasoned by aromatic grass, Erodoto it hands down different Babylonian recipes and in the VII sec. B.C. Archiloco, the poet-soldier, in some verses it informs us about to have in the lance his "mixed pizza bread", the principal food of the soldier. Greece classical show a vast harvest of examples that you/they bring us to the pizza, or at least to one version of his "archetipale": squeezings and pizza breads of various kind appear diffused and popular food in the whole classical antiquity. Numerous they are the testimonies of writers Greek concerning different types of "pizza", the so-called one "maza" in Greek ancient: testimonies that we punctually find again in the Latin world and in the ancient Rome where among the other raised versions and not of this pizza bread we find her/it "placenta" and the "offa", prepared with water and bowline, the cereal at the base of the feeding of the Latin people. During the centuries the pizza goes approaching more and more himself/herself/itself to the actual form, the word "pizza" you/he/she is already attested in epoch altomedievale and in the centuries | | | | | | | | | | following varied local forms of this term are recovered pointing out culinary variations on the theme. The longobardis lowered in southern Italy after the fall of the Roman empire had brought with itself the bufala that, ambientatasi between the Lazio and Campania, will furnish once the milk for the manufacture of the mozzarella.
It is in modern epoch the discovery of the New World it will bring in Europe an element prince of the pizza that is almost impossible to imagine deprived of it: the tomato.
After the initial distrust, the tomato made its triumphal entry in the Italian cuisine, and in that Neapolitan particularly. The pizza will be beneficiary illustrious of it approaching more and more himself/herself/itself to the form that we today know. | | | |  | | The pizza, not wanting here to give credit to other fanciful hypotheses on his/her origin, he introduces as a food typical of the cultures that have historically leaned out on the basin of the Mediterranean. It is in one of the queens of the Mediterranean Sea, Naples, it will find his/her country and the point of departure of a diffusion that it is able well to tell him planetary. But it is among '700 and '800 that the pizza he always affirms more as one of the dishes of the Neapolitan kitchen preferred of the people entering the culinary tradition of this city to full title: and he always go defining the characteristics of the pizza and the places appointed to his/her confezionamento the pizzeries.
In the '700 the pizza is manufactured in firewood ovens to be sold therefore for the roads and the alleys of the city: a labourer of shop that brought in equilibrium on the head her | | | | heater, directly went to the buyers the pizzas, you already manufacture with different ingredients and seasonings after having told them some his/her own arrival with sonorous and characteristic calls. To horse among the '700 and the 800 start to affirm him the habit to also taste the pizza near these ovens over that for road or in the house, sign of the increasing favor that he/she met this food entered by now the feeding of the Neapolitan people to full title: the pizzeria is born in the form that we know and also go defining himself/herself/itself the characteristics for so to say "physics" and "environmental" of the pizzeria which we know her/it to us. | | | | The firewood oven, the counter of marble where the pizza is manufactured, the shelf where in beautiful show are the ingredients that will go to compose the different varieties of pizza, the tables where the buyers consume her/it the external exposure of pizzas sold to the passers-by: all elements that still find again him in the Neapolitan pizzeries.
Among aristocratic taste (King Ferdinando II of Borbone well it appreciated the pizzas of 'Ntuono Testa to the Slope S. Teresa) and still more convinced favor to populate the pizza him affirms as daily dish, lunch and to supper of the Neapolitan people.
For tuttol'800 the pizzaiuolis, itinerant and not they keep on supplying the Neapolitans of the most different qualities of pizza, for all the pockets, and the pizza definitely enters the folklore of the Neapolitan people an icon becoming of it.
After the Borbone also the kings of Italy, the Savoias, showed to appreciate the Neapolitan pizza: not only, but they left trace of itself in the history of the pizza. The ancient Pizzeria Brandì preserves today still a document to signature "devoted Roosters Camillo, head of the services of table of the real house" of the June 1889, in which S.G is thanked. Raffaele Esposito, of the then pizzeria "Pietro and Enough So", for the qualities of pizza, among which the very famous tomato and mozzarella, manufacture for Your Majesty the Regina Margherita, that, as it underlines the text, buonissime was found. The pizza tomato and mozzarella you/he/she was baptized then "Pizza Margherita" from the pizzaiuolo Raffaele Esposito, the name with which still this pizza is today universally known.
The principle of the new century sees the pizza ready for its diffusion on it climbs national and world, well beyond the Neapolitan confinements, that all know: during our century by now to the sunset, the pizza has conquered consents from Europe to America to Japan, becoming, and you don't seem an exaggeration patrimony of the whole humanity. | | | | THE LEGEND OF THE IMPRISONED COOK The protagonist of the legend is Totò Sapore, as humble as capable cook of the court of the Borbonis in Naples.
Totò was apprezzatissimo for his/her kitchen, you/he/she was summoned every time that the king received noble and ambassadors and is said that more than once a dish of Totò has avoided a war.
A beautiful day, or ugly if we want, a noble found a hair in the soup and Totò you/he/she was beaten in the dark and cold jails of Castel of the Ovo.
Bars give the sun it arrived as soon as and Totò was not able of it more. This way thought to a way to escape!
He/she asked to the watches to bring him the ingredients for a cake that wanted them to give and it is said that a friend made him come some sleep aid. To the first bite the watches collapsed dormant and Totò escaped, finding shelter near some friends, to which, in exchange for the hospitality, it prepared delicious manicaretti. Just its cleverness betrayed him/it, because a count that passed near his/her shelter recognized the unmistakable odor of the meat sauce of Totò and made him/it immediately arrest.
This time the king condemned him/it to death, but Totò proposed him a bet. It said that you/he/she would have prepared a dish that was not neither a first, neither a second, neither of meat, neither of fish, with the colors and the perfumes of the sky and the earth. If the dish is liked, he would have been free, otherwise you/he/she would have accepted its sentence.
The king accepted and invited to court the whole nobility partenopea to assist to the execution of the cook. Totò prepared hundreds of that flat and the noble they seemed to never satiate him of it, to the point that the king owed admit to have lost the bet. Totò was free, but above all the pizza had been born! | | | | | 
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