Pizza

Pizza has a long history, complicated and often uncertain which inspired much debate.

Origin of the word "pizza" is not clear, but it first appeared 997 years in Latin Middle Ages, and in Naples in the 16th century called a Galette pizza.

History of Pizza begins the moment one of the first Greek to make big dough, round and flat with a mixture of spices and oil. At that time the tomatoes has not been found, so as not to be used in the mixture.

In the 18th century, this type of bread began to be known in Italy as well as sold on the streets and markets with the name 'Pizza'. Pizza at the time did not have any toping but only as a round loaf of bread.

This bread is very easy to make and low cost, because it was mostly sold to poor people in the area of Naples, In about the year 1889, Queen Margherita, accompanied by her husband Umberto I, traveling around the Italian kingdom. At that trip, he saw a lot of people who eat large bread-shaped, round and flat, especially the farmers.

Curious, the queen ordered the guards to buy bread, it appeared that the queen loved it so every time out of the kingdom, then he would eat the bread.

This became the talk of the kingdom, because they are considered highly inappropriate for a queen to eat peasant food.

Queen Margherita ignores protest at court, he even brought a special chef Rafaelle Esposito's most famous for his pizza and hired him on the court to make a variety of pizzas according to the wishes of the queen.

Rafaelle Esposito chef make a special pizza for the queen to use a variety of toppings such as tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil leaves and red, white and green (in accordance with the Italian flag colors).

This pizza later became the queen's favorite pizza and called the Pizza Margherita, because the Queen is very fond of pizza so she began to become very popular among the people of Italy.

After that pizza became more popular throughout Italy, and began to be enjoyed by all the famous people and to the whole world until now.