Traditionor junk food?

Pizza

Foods similar to pizza

have been made since

the neolithic age.

Records of people

adding other

ingredients to bread

to make it more

flavorful can be found

throughout ancient

history.

O r i g i n s

The innovation

that led to flat

bread pizza was

the use

of tomato as a

topping.  It was

common for the

poor of the area

around Naples to

add tomato to

their yeast-based

flat bread, and so

the pizza began

Pizza first made its appear-ance in the United Stateswith the arrival of

Italia

n immigrants in the

late

19th century

and was very

popular

am

ong

large Italia

n popula

tions in Ne

w York

City,

Chic

ago,

Philadelphia

and

Saint Louis.

In the USA

By the 1960s, it was popular enough to be featured in an episode

of Popeye the Sailor. Two

entrepreneurs, Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo, invented Chicago-style

deep-dish pizza, in 1943. They opened their own

restaurant on the corner of Wabash and Ohio, Pizzaria Uno. Chain

restaurants sprang up with pizza's rising

popularity.