During the celebrations on the 150ennale Unification of Italy,
need to do some thinking about the dishes that have made great
the name of Italy in the world.
It 'hard to talk about cooking renaissance, as our kitchen next to the unification of Italy was still tied to the kitchen and friendly city, and the royal Savoia could bind the particular traditions of French cuisine were unfortunately slaves and his cooks.
The proliferation of a thousand dialects, unsafe roads and battered vehicles have helped to unify our traditions of cooking, at least for a while 'time.
There is a flat, however, that was the argument across to become the emblem of Italian cuisine, beating the world, spaghetti, burgers, fish and chips, kebab, speaking of pizza.
history cloaked in legend, inventor Raffaele Esposito of Naples pizza districts that proposed to the English Queen Margherita a Triduum of pizzas, one with only the oil, the other with whitebait and to finish the tomato with mozzarella and basil chosen by the Queen which gave the name to just "pizza".
Follow me a bit 'on this story.
The term probably derives from the greek pitta pizza and turkish pide, and then shows that is part of a diverse family of cakes that were produced in the Mediterranean, kneading bread dough called in other parts of Italy focaccia or crushed .
poor food and embezzled by all, Dumas talks about pizza as well as food consumed by the past, the "Lazarus", Collodi son of a hated pizza chef describes it as "custard with toasted over a bit of everything ' complicated with an air of dirt, "Matilde evening in the" Belly of Naples "despite his sympathy for the city of Naples crushes hopelessly this food considered" dirty, smelly, sold by street vendors and eaten by flies. "
makes me doubt then that the Queen Margherita, blonde, beautiful and handsome, elegant example of love, care and cleaning did not go well for the event to taste a food as unhealthy and denigrated by the middle classes and the wealthy. .
The problem was not the pizza, it was Naples, and Naples was the problem of cholera. Naples was the city
more 'densely populated in Europe, in the "low" English Quarter and the situation in terms of social and health was fatal. The cholera had become endemic, five outbreaks in a few years of this terrible disease with unknown causes and remedies had weakened the population.
unification in 1861 after the initial enthusiasm had come to the surface the real problems of the new kingdom, poverty, illiteracy, gangsterism, disease, the break between the State and the people had become evident and dangerous.
In 1884 there is a new major outbreak of cholera in Naples, and King Umberto I took the initiative, leaders' that natural disasters like the flood in the Veneto region of 1882 and the earthquake in Ischia the following year were great propaganda tools. He went
'personally in Naples, calmed the nervousness of the population, visited hospitals, made from important works of redevelopment of the city in 1899 and led the Regina Margherita pizza ...!
The set of initiatives taken and the gesture of granting the Royal Assent to the plate more 'popular cities' poor in Italy was a political visionary, similar to the gesture made by Princess Diana in 1987 when he embraced a patient AIDS.
The road to the success of this dish was still very long, the pizza that started popping up in different places from Naples were not lucky, the word "pizza" appears for the first time in an Italian dictionary in 1918, it seemed that he liked the pizza only to Naples, then after World War II and in particular from the 50 with the new food revolution and Italy the world have discovered that the pizza is not only good but also economical, nutritious and digestible, ... .. but that's another story.
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