America Before Pizza
BEFORE PIZZA
AFTER PIZZA
where I grew up in NYS “Pizza” was called “hot pie”....we had many Italians living in our area....
I never even heard of pizza until the 1950s .
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I have my mother’s Betty Crocker cookbook from 1952, and it talks about the new Italian food, pizza pie
A much more unhappy place. Same with hamburgers.
I’m originally from New Haven where apizza has been around for 100 years.
I miss Sally’s, Pepe’s and Modern a lot.
Great pizza if you ever get a chance to go.
Even Wikipedia acknowledges ‘pizza’ as a crust with tomatoes (a New World item), etc, goes back to 18th - 19th century or maybe earlier. First American pizzeria to early 20th century.
And then came the ultimate expression of goodness;
Deep dish pizza.
Restaurants that list the pies on their menus as "pizze" are usually owned and operated by Italians, and they serve the best pizza.
Pizza was taken to the United States by Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where they concentrated. The country’s first pizzeria, Lombardi’s, opened in New York City in 1905. Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy’s native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular.
Thirteen percent of the United States population consumes pizza on any given day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza
What if the Earl of Sandwich had never invented the sandwich?
“Pompeii archaeologists discover ‘pizza’ painting”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66031341
no tomatoes, of course
America Before Pizza
BEFORE PIZZA
AFTER PIZZA
Was there an America before pizza? No way...
bread, cheese, and sauce
Don’t forget the toppings, which is meat and other things. And more cheese.
I was born in ‘51 and grew up in upstate NY. I honestly cannot remember when I first heard (or had) “pizza.” My mom had a dish she liked to make called “meatza pie,” but that might have been when I was in high school (I never told mom it was “meh” at best — she always thought it was a treat for us).
My wife is a native Californian and doesn’t remember it as a kid, either.
The first pizza we can remember was around 1980 or so at a little pizzeria in midtown Palo Alto. We ate more pizza when the kids came along in the mid and late 80s.
Fun fact-
although tomatoes were eaten by tribes for hundreds of years-
it wasn’t until pizza was invented in the late 1800’s that civilized society consumed them.
I could eat pizza everyday. 😊
It reminded me of growing up in rural Michigan and hearing about this exotic food called TACOS on the partridge family.