Have you ever thought about how there was a pizza? Or who invented pizza? So let's look at the history of the emergence of pizza directly.
Everyone's favorite pizza is not a modern dish, how it is assumed it has existed for thousands of years, as in it's not hard to believe. Even in ancient Egypt and Persia was a favorite dish of peasants grain bread with spread out her vegetables and meat. More like a modern pizza began, which was baked by the ancient Greeks, and they, in turn, the Romans borrowed the recipe. Since it is assumed that the first pizza came it was in ancient Rome.
For a long time the pizza was considered food for the poor, it was very popular among the peasants and sailors. In the 18th century began to appear the first pizzeria, which were very similar to modern institutions - the same tables for pizza, different toppings and condiments, tables for visitors, as it was possible to order a pizza takeaway. With the advent of tomato pizza acquired substantially the same form as it is now.
It is known the exact date of when the pizza has ceased to be the food of the common people. In 1772, while strolling incognito in Naples, ruling at the time, King Ferdinand I, came, hungry, a well-known pizzeria while Antonio tests. He liked it so satisfying, tasty dish with a variety of fillings, that he intended to implement it in royal cuisine. But the Queen firmly opposed to consume food of poor people and the attempt ended in failure.
Next, the royal couple reacted more favorably to this dish, cook it by changing some rules in order to make it possible to submit it to the royal table. Namely, feet kneading process was totally unacceptable for royals. The next problem was the way the use of noble pizza parties, not to get fat fingers, but it has also been successfully resolved. For eating pizza began to use chetyrehzubuyu fork and whipped dough now special, bronze pestle. For the first time after these innovations is a huge pizza was served on the royal table to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Queen, and was called by her name - "Margarita". Personal pitstsayollo royal court Esposito specifically on this auspicious day to cook a pizza with stuffing, repeating the Italian tricolor - red tomatoes, white mozzarella and green basil.