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Pizza History
These early pizzas consumed by Naples’ poor featured the tasty garnishes beloved today, such as tomatoes, cheese, oil, anchovies and garlic -
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Pizza History
Pizzeria Brandi the successor to Da Pietro pizzeria, founded in 1760. -
Pizza History
Italy unified in 1861, and King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889. Legend has it that the traveling pair became bored with their steady diet of French haute cuisine and asked for an assortment of pizzas from the city’s -
Pizza History
Immagrants from Italty came over for factory jobs and pizza came over with the. The Americans smelled the aroma and it smelled good to them. -
Pizza History
The first documented United States pizzeria was G. (for Gennaro) Lombardi’s on Spring Street in Manhattan, licensed to sell pizza in 1905. -
Pizza History
Arthur Avenue, the Bronx, opened 1919 -
Pizza History
Coney Island, Brooklyn, opened 1924 -
Pizza History
New Haven, opened 1925 -
Pizza History
As Italian-Americans, and their food, migrated from city to suburb, east to west, especially after World War II, pizza’s popularity in the United States boomed. -
Pizza History
In the 1940s, pizza would remain little known in Italy beyond Naples’ borders. -
Pizza Today
Yet international outposts of American chains like Domino’s and Pizza Hut also thrive in about 60 different countries.
