Argentine Pizza Culture and Global Variants

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Find Ollie Sleep Solutions for the whole family at Ollie. com That's OL . com 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 woodfire oven . The term pizza was first recorded in AD nine ninet hundredy seven in a Latin manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gailleta in Lazio on the border with Campagna Rafaele Esposito is often credited with creating the modern version of pizza in Naples at the end of the nineteenth century . In two thousand nine , Neapolitan pizza was registered with the Europe an Union as a traditional specialty guaranteed TSG dish . In twenty seventeen, the art of making Neapolitan pizza was included in UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage . Pizza and its variants are among the most popular foods in the world . Pizza is sold at a variety of restaurants , including pizza ruze, Mediterranean restaurant s , via delivery , and a street food . In Italy, pizzas served in a restaurant is presented unsliced and is eaten with the use of a knife and fork. In casual settings, however, it is typically cut into slices to be eaten while held in hand. Pizza is also sold in grocery stores in a variety of forms , including frozen or as kids for self assembly . Store bought pizzas are then cooked using a home oven . In twenty seventeen, the world pizza market was one hundred twenty eight billion US dollars . In the U. S. it was forty four billion dollars spread over seventy six thousand pizzerillas Overall, thirteen percent of the U. S. population, aged two years and over consumed pizza on any given day . The oldest recorded usage of the word pizza is thought to be from may nine hundred ninety seven AD , appearing in the codex diplomaticus caitanus . a notorio Latin document from the town of Gaiaeta , then still part of the Byzantine Empire . The text states that a tenant of certain properties to give the bishop of Gaeta Duodecim pizza literally twelve pizzas a pork shoulder and kidney annually on Christmas day , and twelve pizzas and a couple of chickens annually on Easter Sunday . A person who makes a pizza is known as a pizzaolo . The word pizza was borrowed from Italian and English in the nineteen thirties . Before it became well known , pizza was called tomato Pie by English speakers Some regional pizza variations still use the name tomato pie. Records of pizza like foods can be found throughout ancient history . In the six century BC the Persian soldiers of Archimenid Empire during the rule of Darius the Great baked flat breads with cheese and dates on top of their battleshields . And the ancient Greeks supplemented their bread with oils, herbs and cheese . An early reference to a pizza like food occurs in the Aeneid , when Celeno, Queen of the Harpies , foretells that the Tro jans would not find peace until they are forced by hunger to eat their tables . In Book seven Aeneas and his men are served a meal that includes round cakes , such as pita bread , copped with cooked vegetables . When they eat the bread, they realize that these are the tables prophesied by Seleno In twenty twenty three, archaeologists discovered a frasco in Pompeii , appearing to depict a pizza like dish, among other foodstuffs and staples on a silver platter . Italy's culture minister said it may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century . Before that time, flat bread was often topped with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard and cheese . It is uncertain when tomatoes were first added, and there are many conflicting claims , although it certainly could not have been before the sixteenth century in the Colombian exchange . Pizza was sold from open air stands and out of pizza bakeries until about eighteen thirty , when pizzeria's in 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 margarita was invented in eighteen eighty nine . When the Royal Palace of Capo Di Monte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaolo pizza maker , Rafaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margarit a . Of the three different pizzas he created , the queen strongly preferred a pizza swathed in the colors of the Italian flag red, tomato , white, mozzarella , and green, basil . Supposedly , this type of pizza was then named after the Queen , with an official letter of recognition from the Queen's head of service remaining to this day on display in Esposito shop , now called the Peteria Brandi Later research cast doubt on this legend , undermining the authenticity of the letter of recognition , pointing that no media of the period reported about this supposed visit and that both the story and name Margarita were first promoted in the nineteen thirties to nineteen forties . Pizza was taken to the United States by Italian immigrants in the nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where they concentrated . The country's first pizzeria ,om Lbardi 's , opened in New York City in nineteen oh five . Italian Americans, migrating from east to west , brought the dish with them , and from there the American version was exported to the rest of the world Pizza appeared in the United Kingdom after World War two , when Ital ian immigrants opened up Italian restaurants in London . The dish really began to take hold in the UK when Peter Boisod , an English entrepreneur , who had tasted Neapolitan pizza on his travels in Italy in nineteen forty eight , opened London's first known pizzeria Pizza Express in nineteen sixty five. Boise 's chain expanded to over five hundred outlets across the UK and Ireland expanding overseas . The Associ one Verace Pizza Napolitana , literally true Neapolitan Pizza Association is a non profit organization founded in nineteen eighty four. with headquarters in Naples that aims to promote traditional Neapolitan pizza In two thousand nine upon Italy's request , Neapolitan pizza was registered with the European Union as a traditional specialty guaranteed dish . And in twenty seventeen , the art of its making was included in UNESCO's list of int angible cultural heritage . Pizza is sold fresh or frozen whole or importion sized slices . Methods have been developed to overcome challenges such as preventing the sauce from combining with the dough and producing a crust that can be frozen and reheated without becoming rigid . There are frozen pizzas with raw ingredients and self rising crusts . In the U. S. , another form of pizza is available from take and bake pizzer . This pizza is assembled in the store , then sold unbaked to customers to bake in their own ovens. Some grocery stores sell fresh dough , along with sauce and baking ingredients , to assemble at home before baking in an oven In restaurants, pizza can be baked in an oven with fire bricks above the heat source , an electric deck oven , a conveyor belt oven , or in traditional st yle in a wood or coal fired brick oven . The pizza is slid into the oven on a long paddle called peel , and b ake directly on hot bricks , a screen , a round metal grate, typically aluminum , or whatever the oven's surface is . Before use, peel is typically sprinkled with corn meal to allow the pizza to easily slide on and off it. When made at home , a pizza can be baked on a pizza stone in a regular oven to reproduce some of the heating effect of a brick oven . Cooking directly on metal surface results in two rapid heat transfer to the crust burning it . Some home chefs use a wood fired pizza oven , usually installed outdoors . As in restaurants, these are often dome shaped as pizza ovens have been for centuries in order to achieve even heat distribution . Another variation is grilled pizza , in which the pizza is baked directly on a barbecue grill . Some types, such as Sicilian pizza , are baked in a pan rather than direct ly on the bricks of the pizza oven . Most restaurants use standard and purpose built pizza preparation tables to assemble their pizz as Mass production of pizza by chains can be completely automated . The bottom of the pizza called the crust may vary widely according to style . Thin as in a typical hand tossed neapolitan pizza or thick as in a deep dish Chicago st yle . It is traditionally plain , but may also be seasoned with garlic or herbs , or stuffed with cheese . The outer edge of the pizza is sometimes referred to as the cornicone . Some pizza dough contains sugar , to help its yeast rise and enhance browning of the crust . Mozzarella is commonly used on pizza with the buffalo mozzarella produced in the surroundings of Naples Other cheeses are also used particularly Burata Gorgonzola, Provolone , Pecorino Romano , Ricotta , and scamorza . Less expensive processed cheeses or cheese analogues have been developed for mass market pizzas to produce desirable qualities , such as browning, melting , stretchiness , consistent fat and moisture content , and stable shelf life . This quest to create the ideal and economical pizza cheese has involved many studies and experiments analyzing the impact of vegetable oil , manufacturing and culture processes , denatured whey proteins and other changes in manufacture . In nineteen ninety seven it was estimated that annual production of pizza cheese was one million metric tons in the US and one hundred thousand metric tons in Europe . A great number of pizza varieties exist these include pizzas defined by their toppings , their crust , their method of preparation , or all three Pizza variations are often named after the region in which they first became prevalent , particularly in North America , such as New York style pizza . Local varieties of pizza are often a staple of regional cuisines . Authentic Neapolitan pizza is made with an San Marzo tomatoes , grown on the volcanic plains south of Mount Vesuvius , and either Mozarella di Buffala compania , made with milk from water buffalo , raised in the marshlands of campagna and Lazio , or Fiordilate . Buffalo mozzarella is protected with its own European protected designation of origin . Other traditional pizzas include pizza marin a , supposedly the most ancient tomato topped pizza and pizza capricosa which is prepared with mozzarella cheese , baked ham , mushroom, artichokes, and tomato A popular variant of pizza in Italy is Sicilian pizza , a sick crust or deep dish pizza originating during the seventeenth century in Sicily . It is essentially a focatra that is typically topped with tomato sauce and other ingredients. Until the eighteen sixties, Sicilian pizza was the type of pizza usually consumed in Sicily , especially in the western portion of the island . Other variations of pizzas are also found in other regions of Italy . For example , pizza al Padellino or pizza degamino a small sized, thick crust, deep dish pizza typically served in tour in Piedmont . The first pizzeria in the U. S. was opened in New York City's Little Italy in nineteen oh five . Common toppings for pizza in the United States include anchovies , ground beef , chicken, eggplant , am rooms olives onions peppers pepperoni , pineapple, salami , sausage spinach , steak , and tomato es A pizza with no toppings is called a cheese pizza or a plain pizza . Distinct region al types developed in the twentieth century including Buffalo, California , Chicago, Detroit , Greek , New Haven , New York, and St. Louis Styles . These regional variations include deep dish , stuffed, pockets , turnovers , rolled , and pizza on a stick , each with seemingly limitless combinations of sauce and toppings . Thirteen percent of the United States population consumes pizza on any given day . Pizza chains , pizzas from take and baked pizzerias , and chilled or frozen pizzas from supermarkets make pizza readily available nationwide . Pizza by the slice is available from a great variety of restaurants and is particularly associated with New York City , where pizzerias are a cultural icon , as well as major food purveyors . Argentine pizza is a mainstay of the country's cuisine , especially of its cap o Buenos Aidus , where it is regarded as a cultural heritage and icon of the city . Argentina is the country with the most pizzeriaas per inhabitant in the world . And although they are consumed throughout the country , the highest concentration of pizzeras and customers in Buenos Aires , the city was the highest consumption of pizzas in the world . As such, the city has been considered as one of the world capitals of pizza . The dish was introduced in Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century with the massive Italian immigration as part of a broader great European immigration wave to the country . Thus, around the same time that the iconic pizza margarita was being invented in Italy , pizza were already being cooked in the Argentine capital . The impoverished Italian immigrants that arrived in the city transformed the originally modest dish into a much more hefty meal , motivated by the abundance of food in Argentina In the nineteen thirties pizza was cemented as a cultural icon in Buenos Aires , with the new pizzeria's becoming a central space for socialability for the working class people who flock to the city The most characteristic style of Argentine pizza, which almost all the classic pizzeriaas in Buenos Hidders specialize in is a so called pizza de Molde , Spanish for pizza in the pan characterized by having a thick, spongy base and elevated bready crust . This style, which to day is identified as the typical style of Argentine pizza , characterized by a thick crust and a large amount of cheese , arose when impoverished Italian immigrants found a greater abundance of food in then prosperous Argentina , which motivated them to transform the origin ally modest dish into a much more hefty meal , suitable for a main course . The name pizza de Molde emerged because there were no pizza ovens in the city , so bakers resorted to baking them in pans . Since they used bakery plates , Argentine pizzas were initially square or rectangular , a format associated with the nineteen twenties that is still maintained in some classic pizzeriaas . Especially for vegetable pizzas , fugazettes or fugazzas . Other styles of Argentine pizza include the iconic fugazza and its derivative fugazetta or fugazza conqueso , a terminology that varies depending on the pizzeria , or the pizza de Cancia or Concera , a cheeseless variant . Most pizza menus include standard flavor combinations , including the traditional plain mozzarella, nicknamed Musa , the Napolitana or Napo with cheese , sliced tomatoes, garlic , tried oregano , and a few green olives . Not to be confused with Neapolitan pizza Calabreza with slices of Longanisa Hamoni Morones with sliced ham and roasted bell peppers , as well as versions with provoone, with anchovies , with hearts of palm , or with chopped hard boiled egg A typical custom that is unique to Buenos Aires is to accompany pizza with fana , a pancake made with chickpea flour . The terms dessert pizza and sweet pizza are used for a variety of dishes resembling a pizza , includ ing chocolate pizza and fruit pizza . Some are based on a traditional yeast dough pizza base , while others have a cookie like base , and resemble a traditional pizza solely in having a flat round shape with a distinct base and topping . Some pizza restaurants offer dessert pizzas . Many mass produced pizzas by American pizza chains have been criticized as having an unhealthy balance of ingredients . Pizza can be high in salt and fat , and is high in calories . The USDA reports an average sodium content of five thousand one hundred milligrams per fourteen inch pizza and fast food chains . Calzone and Stromboli are similar dishes that are often made of pizza dough folded calconi, or rolled stromboli a filling . Cocoa is a similar dish consumed mainly in Catalonia and neighboring regions , but that is extended to other areas in Spain and to Algeria . There are sweet and savory versions . Farinata or Chicina is a Ligurian farinata and Tuscan Chicina regional dish . It is often baked in a brick oven and typically weighed and sold by the slice . Flamakuka is a food specialty of the Elsas region . Foc a is a flat leavened oven baked Italian bread , similar in style and texture to pizza . In some places it is called pizza bianca , literally white pizza Atlantic Fingers is an Atlantic Canadian dish similar to a pizza in shape and size and made with similar dough . It is garnished with melted butter , garlic, cheese , and sometimes bacon . H lipid , or simply pile , is a Turkish dish similar to a pizza in being made of wheat based dough , topped with tomato, cheese and other ingredients , and usually formed in a boat like shape . It is sometimes sold as Turkish pizza . Kachapuri is a Georgian cheese filled bread . Lamajun is a Middle E astern flat bread topped with minced meat . The base is very thin , and the layer of meat often includes chopped vegetables . Manakish is Levantine flatbread dish . Matsa pizza is a Jewish pizza dish . Okonomiyaki, often referred to as Japanese pizza is a Japanese dish cooked on a hot plate . Panzeroti are similar to calzonas , but fried rather than baked . Pastoramalia , nicknamed Macedonian pizza , is a bread pie made from dough and meat . It is usually oval shaped with chopped meat on top of it . Piaadina is a sin Italian flat bread , typically prepared in the Romagna historical region . Pinza bread is a flat bread with sauce supplied after baking . Pizza Laer is similar to an Italian pizza with a slightly thicker crust and a topping of cooked onions , anchovies and olives . Pizza bagel is a bagel with topp similar to that of traditional pizzas . Pizza cake is a multiple layer pizza . Pizza rolls are a frozen snack product Pizza Strips is a tomato pie of Italian American origin Siha is eleven tin flat bread with toppings . Vea is a Swiss type of tart . Zanzibar pizza is a street food served in Stone Town Zanzibar , Tanzania . It uses a dough much thinner than pizza dough , almost like phylo dough , filled with minced beef, onions , and an egg similar to Moroccan Bastilla Spielkuken is a German onion tart often baked with diced bacon and caraway seeds