The history of pizza

Pizza has very ancient origin, almost 3000 years of history, it was a fundamental food for Meditarranean civilization, thanks to a dough of cereals, water and various seasoning. The culinary tradition of  ancient Egypt, Greece and Romans had some examples of flat breads that we can  compare to the pizza.

In ancient Egypt they used to celebrate pharaoh with a flat bread with aromatic herbs, in Greece they used to eat different kind of pizza called "maza", in ancient Roma Empire they made different sort of flat breads called "placenta" and "offa", made with water and barley.
We found the word "pizza" in high medieval period and then in next centuries. Lombard civilization  that came in Italy after the fall of Roman Empire, brought with themselves bufala, important for the mozzarella.
In modern time the discovery of the New World bring a very important ingredient for the pizza : tomato.
Between sixteen and seventeen century pizza became very important for Neapolitan kitchen. In 1700 it was made in wood ovens and sold in streets, then people became to eat pizza directly in the ovens where it was produced  and so this ovens became the first "Pizzeria".
A lot of artist, like: D'Annunzio, Di Giacomo, Dumas and Boucard,   wrote about pizza.
The 1889 was a very important year for the pizza, the most important pizza maker of Napoli: Raffaele Esposito cooked for king Umberto and queen Margherita, three pizzas, the favourite of the queen was a pizza with tomato and mozzarella and so they gave to this kind of pizza the name of Margherita.
At the beginning of 1900 Pizza reached United States thanks to the people migration and then during the century all the world.
Nowadays, as we know, pizza is famous in all the world.