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Added a short history of pizza
In the [[United Kingdom]], pizza is a popular form of convenient take-away food often eaten at parties and other social gatherings.
In the [[United Kingdom]], pizza is a popular form of convenient take-away food often eaten at parties and other social gatherings.
== History of pizza ==
In ancient Greece, bread was sometimes covered with oils, herbs and cheese. The Romans developed a sheet of dough with honey and cheese toppings and flavored with bay leaves called placenta cake.
Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy in the 18th or early 19th century. Before that time, flatbread was often covered with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard, cheese, and basil. It is unknown when tomatoes were first added and there are many conflicting claims.
A popular legend holds that the archetypal pizza, Pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pie made with the colors of the Italian flag: red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). Supposedly, this kind of pizza was then named after the Queen as "Pizza Margherita".
Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century; and first appeared in areas where Italian immigrants concentrated. The country's first pizzeria, Lombardi's, opened in 1905. Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign after being introduced to Italy's native cuisine proved a ready market for pizza in particular. Since then pizza consumption rose dramatically in the United States. Pizza chains such as Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's, pies from take and bake pizzerias and chilled and frozen from supermarkets make pizza readily available nationwide. It is so ubiquitous that thirteen percent of the U.S. population consumes pizza on any given day.
== Fusion pizza ==
== Fusion pizza ==