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Speaking about pizza is not speaking about something that is being forgotten, as we said about headgear in our main page. Pizza has became a worldwide dish since the Second Word War and it won't change in a near future.
But let's begin with the origin of pizza. They were probably the Persian who first had the idea of putting vegetables on large flat pieces of bread, and they might have introduce pizza to the ancient Greeks. After Greeks, some ancient Roman books did already speak about "a round dough with oil, herbs and honey, which is cooked in a oven". They have also been found things similar to "pizza ovens" in the ruins of Roman cities like Pompei. Even shops looking like pizza shops have been found there.
Pizza spread afterward over the whole Mediterranean countries. In some places these large pieces of bread were flatter and in some others thicker, but the idea was everywhere the same: bread, some ingredients on it and coked in the oven. For centuries one vital ingredient was however missing: the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe until the sixteenth century, from South America. It was the nineteenth century when Rafaele Esposito, a baker from Naples, began to sell the first modern pizzas. He was asked to bake a special pizza for the visit of the Italian King and Keen in 1889, and so the first pizza Margarita was created, named after the Queen.
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