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PIZZA

Pizza dates back thousands of years, believe it or not, tracing its roots back to the flatbreads with toppings that were
popular with ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. But modern pizza, the flatbreads with tomato sauce, cheese, and
toppings, was born along the western coast of Italy, in the city of Naples

Naples too has a long history, dating back to 600 B.C. when the Greeks first settled it. Over time, Naples became a
thriving city on the water. In the 18th and 19th century it was booming, with a population packed into a dense area,
Naples was notorious for its masses of poor, working class people. Those people needed to eat! That meant inexpensive
food, and since much of their lives were spent outdoors, it needed to be able to be eaten quickly.

Flatbreads sold by street vendors were then topped with tomatoes, cheese, garlic, anchovies, oil became the food of the
time, available for every meal and easily affordable for all. And thus, pizza was born! That's right, even from the
beginning people have been eating pizza for breakfast! (Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!)

One of the earliest pizzerias in the U.S. was opened in Manhattan, Lombardi's, named for its owner Gennaro Lombardi.
As of today, 116 years(!) later, Lombardi's is still selling up slices from that same ovn! While they moved locations, they
took the oven with them.

From then it was only a matter of time as pizza raced across the nation, spreading with Italian-Americas across the
United States. After World War II pizza took off in the U.S., no longer thought of as an ethnic food, it became a part of
American food culture. New regional variants developed in the Midwest, in the South, and of course the New York-style
pizza was defined.

When pizza finally took over America, it became just another American culture export to the rest of the world, like Coca-
Cola and Elvis other countries started eating pizza because it was American. The rest of Italy finally got the big idea too.

So, who invented pizza? The ancient people living around the Mediterranean made the first step by eating all their
flatbreads with toppings. Then the people of Naples took it and created pizza as we understand it today.

We're doing our part in spreading the Good Word of Pizza! Get your order in and celebrate your National Pizza Party Day
with Streets of New York.

Ingredients:

This would be: 51% flour, 19% tomatoes, 12% mozzarella cheese, 6% olive oil, 4% onion, 2% yeast, 2% white sugar, 1%
salt and 1% parmesan cheese.