Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired
A veggie pizza divided into eight slices
An illustration from 1830 of a pizzaiolo in Naples
Pizza dough being kneaded before being left undisturbed and allowed time to proof
Tossing pizza dough to stretch it
Pizza Margherita, also known as Margherita pizza, is, together with the pizza marinara, the typical Neapolitan pizza. It is roundish in shape with a raised edge and seasoned with hand-crushed peeled t
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…Naples started to have stanze with tables where clients could sit and eat their pizzas on the spot. A popular legend holds that the archetypal pizza, pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo ('pizza maker') Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza…
Pizza Margherita stu spivack
1989 commemorative plaque in Naples marking the 100th anniversary celebration of the creation of pizza Margherita
Uncooked pizza Margherita on a pizza peel
Pizzeria de' Figliole, Naples, Italy