Where was pizza first made?

zbeckabee

Pizza is one of those foods for which we will never know a specific origin. For one thing, the definitions of pizza are many and varied. Putting stuff on flat bread as a meal certainly goes back as far as ancient Rome. The word "pizza" itself appears just before 1000 AD, in the area between Naples and Rome, meaning "pie." http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpizza.html Jul 19 06, 6:36 PM

peasypod

Perhaps in Virgil's boudoir. "Their homely fare dispatch’d, the hungry band Invade their trenchers next, and soon devour, To mend the scanty meal, their cakes of flour. Ascanius this observ’d, and smiling said: “See, we devour the plates on which we fed." Jul 19 06, 6:47 PM

Gnomon

There are three main countries which claim to have invented pizza: Italy, Greece and the United States. Jul 20 06, 1:50 AM

Arpeggionist

And ancient Israel, who are said to have made pizzas for the purpose of the Passover seder. (The crust would not be leavened, and some rabbis tended to put topings on it.) One possibility is that the Romans picked up this little custom and found it appetizing the whole year round. Jul 20 06, 2:21 AM