2005 will mark the 100-year anniversary of the first pizzeria in America. Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, which is about 350 slices per second. According to an American Dairy Association random sampling survey, pizza is America’s fourth most craved food behind cheese, chocolate, and ice cream. American’s obviously love pizza; we have even designated the month of October as National Pizza Month. But whether you bake your pizza in your kitchen oven, in a wood-burning stove
For millennia, pizza, a food of various origins and multiple styles, has played an important role in the diet of those who inhabited the land now called Italy. Neolithic nomads, the Etruscans from the North, and the Greeks from southern regions were the three earliest societies to develop pizza prototypes, for example, focaccia. Each group made small adaptations that changed the original product into a slightly more refined dish. As early as the Stone Age, Neolithic hunter-gatherer tribal groups
When most people sink their teeth into a hot slice of pizza, few stop and think about what actually makes it so good. Pizza varies from state to state in that the dough tastes differently depending on state’s water source. However, two of the other key parts of a slice, tomato and cheese, are generally the same. There’s a particular reason that this combination makes things taste so good and rise to normality in society is interesting. Tomatoes were first introduced to Europe from Central or South
Pizza can be traced back to Naples, Italy in the middle ages. Although the origin of the word pizza is not clear, the Italians are credited with coining the term pizza. It is though that the word could have come from the Italian word point, pizziare, meaning to pinch or pluck, or a verb meaning to sting or to season. Who would have thought that pizza will soon be the favorite dish of many? I love pizza so much that I don’t think I can live without it. My buddies and I often hang out at places where
born September 1, 1910. Mussolini, like many Socialists, condemned Italy’s involvement in the Libyan War. In 1912, he moved to Milan to be the editor of the newspaper Avanti!. In Milan, he rekindled his affair with Ida Dasler and began one with Margherita Sarfatti, one of his
Claudio Monteverdi, the influence and inspirations Alexander Lee Claudio Monteverdi is considered to be one of, if not the most significant transformer of European music. A genius since childhood, Monteverdi was a creative and dominant musician. Though a good number of his compositions were famous with other musicians and composers, on the other hand, shaped the musical compositions of ages that followed. As the melodic atmosphere in Europe changed, Monteverdi modernized his vision of music.