Imagine a cheesy, saucy, warm bread melting in your mouth. What is this delightful food?
Its nothing more than pizza. Pizza pie is one of the most popular foods in America it can be
found everywhere. It is a staple of the American diet as a cheap and easy meal. Pizza is sold in
many shapes and variations from barbeque on pizza to chocolate chips. Pizza is served at parties,
in cafeterias and in college dorms. Not only has pizza pie make its way into American culture. It
has now become American as apple pie. From the discovery by royalty in Italy, and through
European immigration it made its way to American culture
Although we love our modern day version of pizza where did it all begin? Today pizza is
a popular dish and is
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During the eighteenth century, the
flat breads called "Pizzas" were sold on the street and markets by vendors on the in Naples, Italy.
The food, was an inexpensive, tasty, and readily available, and popular among the peasants.
Even though pizza is not associated as being peasant food in modern times, it began as a
simple piece of bread popular among the poor. According to Brassfeild who wrote the Origin of
Pizza said “Pizza was consumed by the peasant working class because of its convenience and
affordable cost”(Brassfeild). Common people were able to get the ingredients and make this
inexpensive meal for their families. People who traveled to the poor sections of Naples in the
seventeenth century would eat pizza served by peddlers with tin stoves balanced on their heads.
(Barrett 14). As pizza popularity increased in Naples, street Vendors sold their pizza to shops
where people could order a custom pizza with many different toppings. Once the members of the
local aristocracy tried pizza and it gained favor among the citizens of Naples Gayle who wrote A Slice of History: Pizza Through the Ages discusses the transformation of Italian
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Families gathered outside to watch in amazement as the,
saucer-shaped dough was hurled high into the air, turbulently spinning, landing atop the artisan’s
fist, still spinning wildly, and tossed again until perfectly stretched dough was formed, topped
with tangy sauce, spices, and cheese and shuttled by paddle into the oven. Pizza had become so
popular by the mid-1960s that a major pizza chain opened and began offering home delivery
while another major player began selling pizza franchises across America.
Early in the 1970s, Television commercials and radio jingles promoting local pizzerias
gained popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1990s, pizza stations were
introduced in major department stores. Pizza has become as American as apple pie and might be
considered one of the most resourceful foods in America. Apparently, there are no limitations to
toppings, dough varieties, and shapes and sizes. Americans enjoy pizza hot and cold, as an
appetizer, main dish, and even as a dessert. Pizza is not fancy though it can be. Pizza is
Mozzarella sticks are one common dish. It is cubes of mozzarella coated in breadcrumbs and fried in oil. This dish is one of the few can be made without the Columbian exchange. The ingredients in this dish include all-purpose flour and breadcrumbs, besides the cheese. The flour is from southwestern Asia, and the mozzarella cheese is from Italy. The breadcrumbs are from Egypt. All of these ingredients are from the “Old World”, meaning that they are from either Europe, Asia, or Africa. Therefore, the Columbian exchange need not have occurred to make
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A major characteristic of New York style pizza is that it is hand tossed. It has a thin crust that is crispy on
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for pizza frequently because it seems to be the group consensus on what we would
Pizza My Heart is one of the most successful pizza restaurant businesses in the Bay area. Founded in 1981, this family-owned business soon became a favorite place for the surfers and beachgoers, and grew into a chain that operates at eighteen locations in northern California. As it emphasized in the mission statement that they want the highest quality in pizza and service, Pizza My Heart is well known for its freshness and taste. Its strategy to source food with more natural and local ingredients and less processing worked when it was awarded “Best in the Silicon Valley” for being the best pizza of the year in 2006 and 2007 from tews.com.
came from the Italians. Their new flavor and pasta dishes won the country over and is
Many scholars have written about the particularly intimate connection between food and family prevalent in Italian-American culture. Herbert Gans interprets this to be a legacy of the traditional Southern Italian peasant culture that the immigrant generation successfully passed down to the younger generations in America. Thus, the connection is implied to be a “transplanted” cultural trait. However, when viewed in light of the social changes in America, this bond was inevitably affected by the Italians’ experiences in America. Italian-American food culture was a tradition shaped by changes outside and inside the family. An examination of the Italian-American family of the interwar years (c.1919-1940) demonstrates that the critical role food came to play in the family life of Italian-Americans was very much the product of inter-generational negotiation. The second generation , largely affected by public discourse, originally viewed “Italian” food as a marker of social inferiority. Therefore, food became a major source of family conflict between generations. But, through inter-generational negotiation, food was ultimately to become a fundamental unifying force of the Italian-American family. Today, in light of the rise of inter-ethnic marriage rates between Italians and Italian-Americans in America, a new form of negotiation centering on food is taking place within the Italian-American family—‘inter-spousal’ negotiation.
During that time period, food was a woman’s primary concern, it was up to her to ensure that there was food prepared and ready for others in the household, it was her responsibility. Bynum focuses on emphasizing the fact that food
TP has grown from a single store in 1988 to the largest pizza chain in Spain. At the end of 1997 they had 399 stores and an estimated market share of 62% in Spain. But what made it so successful? There are several reasons for that in the TP concept:
As more and more time passed, the lives of Europe's people were not getting any better. Most of the population were peasants and their normal diet consisted of small amounts of porridge, whole-grain stew, unleavened bread, and maybe
From all historical accounts, it seems that fruit pies as we now know them were invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Women in the southeastern counties of the state made delicious, crispy pies encasing every fruit in the region. “It may be,” states Frederick Klees, “that during the Revolution men from the other colonies came to know this dish in Pennsylvania and carried this knowledge back home to establish pie as the great American dessert” (191). Additionally, this pie gained popularity at the triumphant end of the war and the beginning of our country. The recipe migrated north, farmer’s wives learned to make this more involved pie, and consumption swelled. Colonists loved pie so much they ate it for every meal, but, notably, not every farmer could afford it. Thus, pies evolved into a symbol of status. Thomas Jefferson made his own recipe, Ben Franklin grew prize apples in his backyard for his pies, and Martha Washington even served this dessert at diplomatic dinners! Indeed it is the fruition of this unique, thick, two-crusted apple pie, rather than the thin, one-crust English pie, in which we invest our pride. Ever wonder why July 4th parties are marked by apple pies? It’s a carryover from first Independence Day celebrations when the apple pie was at its peak importance to Americans.
Pizza Hut remains openly optimistic about its future in Brazil. It took them a period of adaptation to understand the politics, the economy, and the culture of the country. After that period was passed, it was easier for them to make more accurate predictions of what is efficient and what is not. Today there are 63 units of Pizza Hut in Brazil. Nineteen of those are located in São Paulo. Only this year 2 new restaurants were opened in São Paulo. As Zani alleged, investment in "advertising, marketing, changes in product, and reductions of prices" caused a positive return for the company.
For years now Pizza Hut, Inc. has been the leader of the pizza industry. We have been privileged to have had the opportunity to perform research on advancements we can make to maintain this reputation. Based upon our Economic Analysis we have decided to not launch the BIGFOOT pizza. The following gives a detailed analysis, offers alternatives to improving the Pizza Hut experience, and gives reasons why we came to this conclusion.
Imagine Italian cuisine without tomato as an ingredient or your favorite pasta without any tomato sauce. It sounds extraordinary to think that at one point in history Italian cuisine didn’t have tomato as a staple food. After the European exploration of the Americas, numerous amounts food we introduced into Europe, Eurasia and Africa. This helped evolve the Mediterranean diet as well as traditional Italian cuisine (MacLennan and Zhang, 131.) What makes Italian cuisine popular around the world today is that most dishes are made with a small number of ingredients; cooking methods are simple and the recipes are healthy. This is a perfect mix for the food lover, and the upcoming cook with hopes to become a chef. This is why traditional Italian cuisine has influence my pursuit into the culinary field. (”Italian Food Made Easy; Traditional Fare Just Like Mama Used to Make,” par. 1-11.)