And how do they make it around the
world ?
From all over the world and for any tastes, here is a list of pizzas out of the rule :
try and see!
NIZZARDA : with onions, black olives and anchovies in oil.
EXOTIC : with sweet gorgonzola and pineapples.
MEXICAN : with tomatoe sauce, yellow peppers, black olives, capers, anchovies, origan and
chilly.
NORTHEN : with cod-fish fillet, capers, garlic and tomatoe pulp.
PROVENçAL : with lard, grated pecorino, eggs, tomatoe and chilly.
GERMAN : with onions, smoked provola cheese, wurstels, some slices of smoked ham and
pickled gherkins.
LONDON : with bacon, gruviera, parmisan flakes and nutmeg.
NEW YORK : the dough is made of bran, potatoes and yolk of egg; it is fried and dressed
with tomatoe and basil.
ROBESPIERRE : with thin slices of beef, rosemary and garlic.
CZECHOSLOVAK : with hemmental and Prague ham.
CHINESE : with bamboo or soya sprouts, first rate fillet, shark and tofu, a kind of cheese
prepared with soya and water.
AFRICAN : with tomatoe, octopus stew and a sprinkling of zicnik, which is a particular
mixture of spices with an aphrodisiac property as someone says.
INDIAN : with radish, a spicy root and little pieces of rosted snake.
Always in the history, pizza was a business, in fact, as times went on, it has always
followed the fluctations of the money market, as stokes do. For example, if the price of
"pizza and CECENIELLI" (little anchovies) was falling down, it was a sign of
good catch. If oil pizza cost more, it meant that the olive-harvest hadn' t been
satisfactory. If you didn' t even have the modest amount to secure yourself a pizza, you
could obtain different forms of credit. For example, they granted a credit untill the
drawing of the lottery day, in the unadvised hope that someone of the neighbourhood won so
as to be able to pay pizza for everybody.
Or while waiting for the weekly pay, they gave you pizza "this day week".
In other words, pizza which you ate in that day, was to be paid within a week.
It happened that the Napolitan every day ate a pizza and every day paid for one : in this
way the debt became everlasting and the "pizzaiolo" knew it ; nowadays pizza
"this day week" is disappeared. Neither is there the pedlar, only the
pizza-places still remain. But even these have undergone the inevitable transformation
during the years : the white tiles and the tables with the marble tops have been
substituted by the white wash walls and the formica tables. Today they are fashion and
refined places. |