By Michael Nolan

Picking up where we left off last time, we were talking about Vincenzo Corrado’s efforts with regard to tomatoes.

He recommended stuffing them with garlic, anchovy, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper, then sprinkling with bread crumbs and oil and baking them in the oven.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Okay, maybe not the anchovies…

The world’s first pizzeria would open in Naples in 1830, and two generations of pizza cooks (pizzaioli) would claim to have made pizza for Kings Ferdinand I and II which is likely, as Ferdinand I also Read the rest of this entry »

By Michelle Fabio

Pizza is one of the world’s most favorite foods and most favorite ways to enjoy tomatoes, but before we get to the question at hand, do you where pizza comes from?

If you guessed Naples, Italy, go grab yourself a slice of the good stuff.

If you want to be traditional about it, you’ll go for what is called a “Pizza Margherita” in Italy, so-named because in 1800, a baker named Raffaele Esposito was presented with the daunting task of serving King Umberto and Queen Margherita.
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