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History of pizza

By tabithallanes12

  • 1889

    1889
    Queen Margherita, accompanied by her husband, Umberto I, took an inspection tour of her Italian Kingdom. During her travels around Italy she saw many people, especially the peasants, eating this large, flat bread.

  • 997 AD

    997 AD
    The Word Pizza was documented in Greta, Italy

  • 1905

    1905
    •. Gennaro Lombardi opened a grocery store in 1897 which was later established as the "said" first pizzeria in America in 1905 with New York's issuance of the mercantile license.

  • 1940

    1940
    pizza consumption was limited mostly to Italian immigrants and their descendants.

  • 1943

    1943
    • 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, they wanted to invent pizza nobody’s ever heard of.

  • 1945

    1945
    With the stationing of American soldiers in Italy during World War II came a growing appreciation of pizza. When the soldiers returned from war, they brought with them a taste for pizza.

  • 1957

    1957
    Frozen pizzas were introduced and found in local grocery stores. The first was marketed by the Celentano Brothers. Pizza soon became the most popular of all frozen food.

  • 1990

    1990
    The world's largest pizza was made in South Africa at the Norwood supermarket, the pizza weighed 12.9 tons.

  • 1880

    1880
    Pizza first made its appearance in the United States with the arrival of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century and was very popular among large Italian populations in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia , and Saint Louis .

  • 1830

    1830
    pizza was sold from open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries, and pizzerias keep this old tradition alive today. It is possible to enjoy paper-wrapped pizza and a drink sold from open-air stands outside the premises.