The pizza pie (pl. pizze : Italian term) is a tart with the Tomate, which would be originating in South America, where the tomatos were cultivated well before European colonization . Such as we know it today, it is of Neapolitan origin . The word, as for him, is well Italian: introduced in French at the 19th century, it is attested in Italian since the 10th century. It indicated in the beginning a kind of wafer without tomato, this fruit having been known in Europe only after 1492.

The word Pizza derives from Pide (or pita), Turkish word which means bread. One recognizes in the pide , a very probable Anatolian ancestor of famous the Italian Recette.

In June 1889, to honor its queen, the chief Raffaele Esposito, on famous the Pizzeria Pietro E basta così decides to create a special pizza pie, just for it. It makes to cook its paste with furnace and supplements it with Tomato S, Cheese of Mozzarella (ingredient not-included in the original receipt because too expensive for the peasants for whom it was intended) and of the basil fresh (colors of the flag Italy N: green, white, and red). This receipt becomes the preferred pizza pie of the queen Margherita and when the short noise that it is the preferred dish of the queen, the pizza pie becomes even more popular among the Italy NS. The history does not say if Raffaele served its creation in its own pizzeria but it launched a culinary tradition, the Margherita pizza pie, which still lasts and was spread in the whole world.

Cultural aspects

From now on popular and omnipresent on all planet, the pizza pie took a statute of product worship and especially with the mode. It is certainly one of the symbols of the Mondialisation, therefore bringing together of the people in their manner of living.

In Italian, one usually employs the metaphor of the pizza pie to say that it is not enough to know something to know to do it. Indeed, the receipt of the pizza pie is one cannot simpler, but the practice requires large Article Toujours by metaphor, the word pizza pie indicates in the Italian Langue the case containing a film of Film (and by extension the film itself), or a person or a particularly tedious thing.

The word " pizza" is used indeed much by Ulcan, character famous of the video plays of World off Warcraft on the European waiters, this coarse character brings back the word " pizza" with a weapon of massive destruction, because its favorite activity is to send deliverymen of pizza pie at the people against which it is made beat in duel.

Artisanal manufacture

• Preparation of the paste: Water, salt, flour of Corn, Yeast, Olive oil. One mixes, one forms large balls like the fist, and one lets rest with room temperature three to four hours;
• Preparation of the pizza pie: one spreads out each ball (the professionals do it with the hand), on which one places the ingredients;
• Cooking: with the furnace with wood fire. The best furnaces currently are the furnaces with wood fire and electronic regulation of the temperature: the pizza pies are on a revolving stone plate which rises inside the furnace to modify the exposure to the heat of the pizza pies.

The simplest pizza pie margherita : a soup spoon of tomatos, Mozzarella crushed with the hands, one or two sheets of basil fresh, a suspicion of Olive oil, and the furnace, and to consume quickly, it do not require more.