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Article #230: Pizza - Slice Of Heaven !

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A slice of pizza is all it takes to get a charcoal fired brick ovens to retain the
smile from your loved one ! Pizzas are authentic flavors. But for home made
the most popular food items that are pizzas, there are many variations to the
available today. Often labeled under the bread, used for the crust..
category of 'fast food', there is Pizza is often broadly divided into 'red'
absolutely no denying the craze it has, and 'white' pizzas, depending upon the
in a following of dedicated pizza lovers. usage or non-usage of tomatoes and other
Straight from the oven, golden brown spices. As the name suggests, the tomato
pizzas, topped with the most luscious of sauce that is slathered so lovingly on
toppings, is pure ambrosia and a treat top of a pizza gives it the name of red
for all foodies ! pizza, with the tomato topping being
The history of pizza goes far and back, smooth and containing less water as not
with lot of countries staking claim to be to render the crust soggy. The most
it's originator. The pizza could have common form of white pizza contains a
been invented by anyone who had learnt garlic and butter sauce, with alternative
the art of baking flour mixed with water sauces also falling in this category. In
on hot ovens. Pizza has been a part of New York, white pizza does not have any
the staple diet of the Italians since the kind of sauce on it. It is simply topped
Stone Age maybe. Since then it has with mozzarella and ricotta cheeses and
followed it's tradition of ensnaring sometimes, fresh vegetables. For pizzas,
people in it's taste till date. The first it is not uncommon to use a raw tomato
pizza was found in Italy in the sauce or tomato puree and fresh herbs
fourteenth century and now is a symbol of such as basil. Pure Neapolitan pizzas
cultural globalization. The Italian word contain only raw, sliced tomatoes.
for a person who makes pizza is Due to the wide influence of Italian and
Pizzaiolo, a restaurant that serves pizza Greek immigrates in America, the pizza
is called a Pizzeria, with the word Pizza has altogether changed it's identity into
Parlor being used in America. large varieties, belonging to different
Pizzas can be described as a oven baked regions and thus bear little resemblance
flat, usually round bread covered with to the Italian original one. With such
tomato sauce and cheese and other variations, it was of little wonder that
optional toppings. The word 'pizza' is the pizza came to be classified under
said to have come from a old Italian word different types and having different
meaning 'a point' which in turn became toppings. Now you have thin crust pizzas,
the Italian 'Pizzicare', which means to stuffed crust pizzas, pan fried pizzas
pinch or pluck. The cheese covering it is and a lot more apart from the original
usually mozzarella or sometimes a mixture ones. And as far as the toppings are
of several cheeses are also used. The concerned... tomato sauce remains the
crust is traditionally plain, but maybe standard favorite, but for others, the
seasoned with butter, garlic, herbs or sky is the limit and creativity is the
may be stuffed with cheese. Pizza can be key word. You can make a pizza topping
baked with a thin bread bottom as in the with anything you feel like and enjoy
Italian or 'hand tossed' styles or may be them to your heart's content. With every
with thicker breads such as the pan family, having at least one pizza fan
pizzas or the American pizza. The crust within itself, it forms a staple part of
can be very thick as in Chicago style the diet of teenagers as well as adults.
ones or almost nonexistent such as the It is filling, fun, easy and it is never
ones found in Naples. Pizzas are the same taste due to it's adaptability
generally baked in a gas canister oven, to change it's shape, color, taste and
an electric deck oven, a conveyor belt topping !
oven or in some cases, in wood or






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