True Italian Taste 2020 - Pizza Guidebook (English Edition)

THE HISTORY OF PIZZA PIZZA IN THE WORLD As mentioned earlier, Pizza made its first appearance outside Italy in the United States with the arrival of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century. This phenomenon was born in cities with large Italian populations, such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia where pizza was initially sold on the streets of Italian neighborhoods. In the late 19th century in Chicago, for example, pizza was introduced by a street vendor who walked up and down Taylor Street with a bucket of pizzas on his head. This was the traditional way in which pizza was sold in Naples, in copper cylinders with handles on the sides and a lid on top to keep the pizzas warm. It wasn’t long before small cafes and grocery stores started offering pizzas to their Italian American communities.

The emigrant Neapolitans have made pizza known and appreciated in the world and by now many chefs of many different nationalities have become expert pizza makers: there is actually a world championship for specialized pizza makers.

In 1897 Gennaro Lombardi, a Naples baker, opened a grocery store on Spring Street in Manhattan. From his charcoal oven, he began selling tomato pies wrapped in paper and tied with rope The first pizzeria in the USA, Lombardi’s to local workers. In 1905, Lombardi was granted the first license in the United States to open a pizzeria.

It was not only a popular trattoria, but also a resource for the “Little Italy” community. “The Italians met there and shared local news and chat; Gennaro also helped other Italian immigrants find a job when they arrived”.

There are different types of pizza, even in Italy depending on the area in which you are located you can find pizzas made in different ways, from fried pizza in Naples to “pizza al tegamino” in Turin. This means that if in Italy, the cradle of pizza, Famous Italian actress Sofia Loren eating pizza there are so many ways to prepare it, in 09