Ok , dont get me started , my passion for eating , making and searching for the best pizza , not just in america or canada but in the world , whenever i travel is beyond logic ....
Im going to explain a few things as best i can , hopefully without hurting anyones feelings , pizza aficiados are quite sensitive about their home team .....
First of all you need to understand and respect pizza for what it is , if you think , because you grew up eating some commercial packaged frozen shit like hot pockets or grocery frozen pizza , if thats all you've been exposed to ....then you might not get it...
Good pizza is an art and tradition , brought to the east coast by italian immigrants , mostly new york , new jersey , and connecticut , where these resturants still operate , totonos ,delorenzos , johns ,lombardys , sallys, pepes, patsys ,
Naples is the birthplace of pizza , starting in the 1500 , to 1800,s
The First writings about pizza were in 1727 , zi ciccio , first neopolitan pizzeria ,
The most famous was Ntuono run by antonio testa , where king ferdinand,the ruler of naples , secretly went to eat ,
Some time after that queen margherita famously ate what became her namesake pizza , at pizzeria Brandi in 1889 , raffaele esposito was summoned to the citys capodimonte palace where queen margherita of savoy wanted to taste a local pie , to represent the colors of the italian flag , created a pie with red sauce , white cheese , and green basil , to represent italys national colors, allegedly this was the worldS first cheese pizza pie .....which margherita liked best , hence the permanent name margherita pizza...
Real neopolitan pie must be made with strict ingredients , san marzano tomatoes , fiore de latte cheese from campagnia , and a particular fine milled 00 flour
The immigrants who arrived on the east coast were pretty serious about their heritage , many had coal and wood burning ovens which exist still , new jersey , connecticut , and new york all have ovens dating back to the late 1800 s
Eventually many pizzerias had to switch to gas ovens , but they continued the tradition of using the best ingridients they could find ....
Its not about regional ingredients , its not about water , its about the desire to maintain a delicious food with a long history
You can make great pizza in california , oregon , texas or omaha , you just need the passion and common sense and respect to do it ,
Also , the fold in pizza developed because pizza is and has been since the begining " street" food , meaning you move while eating and walking ...
Many say that east coast pizza never caught on in places like los angeles or many other cities for that matter that didnt have a huge foot , pedestrian population , as most pizzerias survive on volume foot traffic.....selling slices of pizza..
Maybe i'll start a pizza thread , i guarantee i can get everyone one of you whos interested in making good ny style pizza a sucess in a few short lessons....
Ok guys , sorry about the rant , im obsessed with pizza .....and weed
