Food white people like
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I agree with you with the exception of pizza. I stayed two weeks in Italy and every dish I had shit on anything out here that's considered "Italian" except pizza. I even had pizza on 4 or 5 different days at different places with different ingredients and was not impressed. It was disappointing, I expected the holy grail of pizza and was let down. Spaghetti was a different story tho, that shit was fucking delicious with goat cheese and garlic and a tall glass of Peroni.
The origin of the word "pizza" is unclear, but by 997 it had appeared in Medieval Latin, and in 16th century Naples a Galette flatbread was referred to as a pizza. The pizza was a baker's tool: a dough used to verify the temperature of the oven.[citation needed] A dish of the poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered a kitchen recipe for a long time.[citation needed] Before the 17th century, the pizza was covered with white sauce.[citation needed] This was later replaced by oil, cheese, tomatoes or fish. In 1843, Alexandre Dumas, père described the diversity of pizza toppings. In June 1889, to honor the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan chef Raffaele Esposito created the "Pizza Margherita," a pizza garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil, to represent the colors of the Italian flag. He was the first to add cheese.[1] The sequence through which flavored flatbreads of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean became the dish popularized in the 20th century is not fully understood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza
