The Saga of Pizza
Category
Food & Cuisines
Era / Tenure
Historic Legacy
Leaderboard Rank
#143 in Food & Cuisines
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ORIGINS & BACKGROUND
Profile & Early Foundations
Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. The term pizza was first recorded in AD 997, in a Latin manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gaeta, in Lazio, on the border with Campania.
THE JOURNEY & BREAKTHROUGHS
Major Works & Significant Milestones
Raffaele Esposito is often credited with creating the modern version of pizza in Naples at the end of the 19th century.
Key Milestone & Career Defining Moment
The term pizza was first recorded in AD 997, in a Latin manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gaeta, in Lazio, on the border with Campania.
