who invented the pizza? ( Archived) (39)

Food historians agree that pizza like dishes were eaten by many peoples in the Mediterranean including the Greeks and Egyptians.

However, modern pizza has been attributed to baker Raffaele Esposito of Naples. In 1889, Esposito who owned a restaurant called the Pizzeria di Pietro baked what he called "pizza" especially for the visit of Italian King Umberto I and Queen Margherita.

The first pizzeria in North America was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi in New York City.

i have heard,or read
back as history goes
the first and basic cuisines were the chinese and the arabic.every other variety which developed later is supposedly based on one of them could be interesting to know

Which is why the Margherita pizza is the basic pizza base that most others are made fro....... Tomatoe and Mozzarella cheese which you then add whatever topping you wish to it.

Mmmmm want to meet in naples for some pizza??

Pizza Napolitana is my favourite ..... Anchovies, Capers and black olives

I goggled and found this...not sure how reliable it is however....seems there is no clear answer...to many variablesStraight Dope:

Who really invented pizza? The Greeks, Italians, or Mexicans?

— Yours in food, Chris & Blair, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Pizza is one of those foods for which we will never know a specific origin. For one thing, the definitions of pizza are many and varied. Putting stuff on flat bread as a meal certainly goes back as far as ancient Rome. The word "pizza" itself appears just before 1000 AD, in the area between Naples and Rome, meaning "pie."

There are traditional pizza-like dishes in Provence where bread (or sometimes a pastry) is topped with onion, tomato, anchovies, and olives. In the Middle East, lahma bi ajeen is a pizza base with minced onions, meat, and flavorings.

So we need to start with some definitions. Shall we confine our attention to American pizza, now found throughout the world? If so, no problem--it was invented in America in the 1950s. That's probably not the answer you were looking for, although the New World did make possible pizza as we know it today.

Instead let's define modern pizza as the tasty conjunction of flat bread, tomato sauce, and cheese. Most food historians point to Naples as the area of origin, and to Napoletana, the pizza of Naples, as the archetype of this type of pizza.

The word "pizza" itself is probably related to pitta (bread) so let's start with the crust. In ancient times, all bread was basically flat, and treated as a food in and of itself. The idea of bread as a carrier or holder of other food pretty much started in the Middle Ages, what we today might call an open face sandwich. It wasn't originally a new way of eating--the bread was a sort of place mat, to help keep the table clean during meals. Only the rich could afford plates, so a flat piece of (say) hard barley bread on the table was used to hold the meal, mostly meat and drippings. Bread was specially baked for that purpose. After the meal, sometimes the bread was consumed, and sometimes given to the dogs

Wasn't it Pizza Hut?

When I was in Naples a little while back this restaurant claims to be the first. I believe them. I went there and ate some! Enjoyed it.

Hm, did Raffaele Esposito come up with the Margherita pizza for Queen Margherita?
It is Not difficult to find good pizza in Naples but it is difficult to find pepperoni pizzas on the menus there, if that's what trips your trigger (not me).