The History of Pizza Through Years
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Explanation:
When pondering a topic to write about, I thought of one of my favorite meals to eat when it is made right, pizza. When the topic of pizza came into my mind I began to wonder of its history. Its always interesting how we know so little about what we love, so I took it upon myself to research the history of a food we all love so much, Pizza. According to Wikipedia “pizza” was first introduced when ancient cultures dipped flat bread into different toppings. A well-documented flat bread often eaten by the Romans was called focaccia. The site says that “modern pizza” was made in Naples, Italy in the 17 hundreds. The process back then was to add tomatoes to focaccia bread. Unfortunately, while this story sounds fine and dandy after this statement it says citation needed. Which is a point in time that one remembers that they are working with a subpar website and not an accredited site. Foods like pizza which is realistically just bread with additives or a dip has been eaten for thousands of years. Sardinia an island in the Mediterranean Sea, is crucial to the story of pizza because archaeologists have found baked bread there that dates back over 7,000 years. An example from a closer time period is in the 15 hundreds in Naples, Italy where a flat bread was referred to as pizza. It at the time was sold on the streets and was known as a dish for the poor. An old story is that in 1889 an Italian pizza maker came up with the “pizza margherita”. Raffaele Esposito is the man who invented said pizza and was considered the father of modern pizza. When contemplating what to write about I immediately thought of food, maybe because I’m always hungry, so I thought of one of Americas favorite foods, pizza. From food on campus to TV commercials it is difficult to escape the smell, appeal, and taste of pizza. With further research an interesting article appeared, about the man who created pineapple pizza, Sam Panopoulos.
Sam Panopoulos a Canadian, is the man credited with the invention of the controversial pineapple pizza. The article is from a food journal goes into depth about Sam and his creation. From what I can tell there is no direct citation in or at the end of the article, however after further research and reading I found out that the information provided in the article about Sam is in fact true. It is important to note that the article was written in 2015 when Mr. Panopoulos was still alive, but a correction was added to the article after his death in 2017, this shows that care and time was put into the story before, during, and after it was written.
