Neapolitan Pizza

Pizza is the Italian pronunciation for the word pitta, which the Greeks used to refer to flat bread from the Middle East. The Italians used the term pizza, pitta, petta, pizzela, or pizzeta as early as the tenth century (though not for a dish with tomatoes, which did not arrive from the New World until much later). Today, of course, pizza has attained the status of an international food. It has been said that if Naples could have patented its pizza it would be one of Italy’s wealthiest citi