Margherita of Savoy

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

where people can come together to eat, drink, talk, and soon become a common sight in Naples. How pizza managed to gain widespread demand had to do with major figures, the figures were Umberto I (1844-1900), King of Italy, and his wife, Queen Margherita di Savoia (1851-1926). The king and queen on a holiday in Naples “called to their palace the most popular of the pizzaioli (pizza chef), Raffaele Esposito, to taste his

created this food for the peasant people of Naples which would be a quick treat, but his real story begins with him creating a pizza to honor the, soon to be pizza lover, "Queen Margherita"on her visit in 1889(Rana 4). "Queen Margherita" fell in love with the pizza with blobs of mozzarella cooked on top ( Turim 6). Margherita soon brought the pizza back

to Christmas or Holiday eats. Never fear, there will a festive themed post before the 25th. More importantly, there will be a Mayan themed post on Friday. If we survive, of course. In the meantime, I thought we could take a peek at the origin of Margherita Pizza. I have always rather enjoyed this story and am arrogant enough to assume that you’ll share my convictions. Foods similar to pizza have been prepared since the Neolithic Age. In fact, records of people adding other ingredients to bread to

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