PIZZA IN THE WORLD

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.

The first pizzeria in the USA, Lombardi’s

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, there are so many ways to prepare it, in the rest of the world there will be as many that are continuously able to surprise all the most curious.

Famous Italian actress Sofia Loren eating pizza

In New York we can find the famous “New York pizza”. The New York pizza is thin enough to be folded but not too much, because it has to withstand the tomato sauce seasoned with garlic and oregano and grated mozzarella while you eat it while walking. It is sold in large triangular slices, and is the perfect food to fill your stomach on the way home.

Then there is the Hawaiian pizza created in 1962 by the Canadian Sam Panopoulos who added pineapple and ham on a pizza Margherita. Crocodile Australian Pizza. Even the Southern hemisphere is clamoring for its version of the very Italian pizza. They say, however, that in those parts the salami or sausage are little used, better garnish it with crocodile meat, then. If you don’t like the genre, you can always try the one with kangaroo! Herring pizza in Russia, pizza takes on a local connotation with the addition of herring and salmon, all on a 4-5 cm high dough.

Hawaiian Pizza. Do not try to eat this in front of an Italian!

While the latter may sound unfamiliar with you, we are sure that you are going to recognize the next one! Vietnamese Pizza (known as Bánh Tráng Nướng) is essentially grilled rice paper used as a pizza base. This super popular Vietnamese street food snack is easily cooked at home with any toppings you have on hand. Despite the infinite variety of pizza that we can find all over the world, the only and original remains the Italian one that has accompanied our life for centuries and to which we must always remain faithful.

Vietnamese Pizza (known as Bánh Tráng Nướng)