A newly discovered fresco from the city depicts a round flatbread loaded with toppings. Was this some early Greek pizza? Was it any good? 🍕
The newly discovered fresco contains many fruits and what may be an early pizza. A new fresco discovered at Pompeii further muddies the already murky history of pizza and the age-old art of putting toppings on flatbread. Found in an atrium buried under a collapsed ceiling and layers of pumice and volcanic ash, the painting shows a round bun loaded with toppings and condiments next to a massive vessel of wine.
But the park’s director, archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel, doesn’t dismiss the idea outright. He draws a parallel between the refined painting of simple foods and pizza’s rise from street food to great cultural significance. “How can we not think about pizza,” he says in a statement, “also born as a ‘poor’ dish in southern Italy that has now conquered the world and is served in Michelin star restaurants.”Who Invented Pizza?
The tomato-based food as we know it today began in Naples in the 18th and 19th centuries as sustenance for the working poor, who needed quick, high-calorie food. Immigrants took the food to the U.S., where it found new popularity in the 1940s and became a global phenomenon.
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