[HPFGU-OTChatter] Pizza

[yael-pou]

  Heather: "Italians in Italy can't make pizza either."

Oh, I've heard than myth. Not true. They make heavenly Pizza, beginning with their breakfast version with cold lettuce and lax and ending with the standard tomatoes sauce that only *looks* like the Pizza in other places.

  Heather: "Babylonians, Israelites, Egyptians and other ancient 
  Middle Eastern cultures were eating flat, un-leaven bread that had 
  been cooked in mud ovens. The bread was much like a pita, which is 
  still common in Greece and the Middle East today.
  [snip]
  topped seasoned with olive oil and native spices."

I know of several "flat" breads, some which are baked with olive oil and Za'atar (local spice) and none can even remotely remind me of a Pizza. True, the same bread is baked with ketchup and hard yellow cheese and is even nicknamed "Pizza" but only because it looks like the real Italian thing. Not the other way around.

  Heather: "Question: if a Napoli baker invented the recent incarnation of this 
  dish, why on EARTH was I repeatedly asked in Italy IF I WANTED 
  CHEESE? Gross. Pizza without cheese?"

You should have tries the no-cheese, lettuce & lax one. I'm still dreaming of it occasionally. :)

yael *not taking the credit for Pizza <BG>*
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