Every year, February 9 is celebrated as World Pizza Day.
There is no place in the world where pizza is not known. The common opinion is that pizza originates from Italy. However, that is not true.
It was invented in ancient Greece as soon as the Greeks perfected the “secret” of mixing flour with water. At first it was flat bread that was baked under a hot stone, and the ancient “pizza masters” coated it with oil mixed with spices.
The look we know today probably only took on sometime at the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century, when the tomato arrived in Europe from America, without which we can hardly imagine pizza today.
In the 18th century, this “tomato sauce scone” made its way to Naples, Italy. Pizza, already then under that name, began to be baked and sold in the squares.
Back in 1830, the first pizzeria that operated indoors existed in Naples. Before that, pizzerias existed only as open-air sales counters. Even today, when pizza has spread all over the world, Naples remains a city where pizza is more than just a dish.
The name pizza comes from the words “picea” and “piza”, which in the area of Sicily and Calabria were called cakes in the local dialect of the Latin language.
Every February 9, on the occasion of World Pizza Day, competitions and events are held in different parts of the world, AA writes.
