The History of Pizza and Types of Pizza in Italy
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- Everybody loves pizza! It's the world's favorite food. But where does it come from? Italy, of course. But when? And how? And from whom? It's an interesting story! And also, what kinds of pizza do Italians like to eat? Let's talk about all things pizza!
Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.
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Professor Dave, I’m native Italian, and amazingly impressed with both your research work and pronunciation of all Italian words. Bravo.
Professor Dave is actually American-Italian haha
@@vedantbhard Oh, really?
@@DryPaperHammerBro yep, he said that on one of his videos, i forgot which ones though lol
@@martinmaxwell3508 Makes sense why the pronunciations were perfect
@@DryPaperHammerBro in his biographical information out there in the interwebz, it's mentioned several times in various places!
That intro never fails to get me excited about random shit i suddenly care about
Try playing the intro and outro songs at x1.5 speed, they sound better!
@@david2869 oh, you weren't lying!
I absolutely love the diversity of the content on this channel. There’s history, economics, chemistry, biology, and even conspiracy theory debunking. Hope the future is great for you.
Professor Dave, you've waited a while to put this one out there, haven't you. Haven't seen that long hair for some time in the outro! Love your Italian pronunciations and, more importantly, you couldn't have applied it to a better topic: PIZZA! Yum! Nicely done.
Finally, explaining something important!
That's what he always does.
Man, I just had dinner before watching this. Now I want a pizza
Same
I'm eating dinner now and wishing it was an authentic Italian pizza
Mark Sargent is in the next room waving a book called "Zetetic Pizza" and yelling, "Pizza is spherical, not flat, you morons!". Seriously though, great video. For some reason I'm hungry now!
Professor Dave, can we have more videos themed as the history of food? This was a treat to watch.
Pasta is coming soon!
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Did you know that Pepe's in New Haven CT. Is still open till this day?
Yeah I ate there once! I grew up in CT.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Me too, New Haven to be exact. I've never been able to find pizza as good as Pepe's. The latest owner passed away recently.
I'll send this to my friends. This is one of the ways how they'll get into history. Food history
Man a Italian is explaining pizza so you know it's true.
My last duty station before retiring from the US Air Force was at Aviano Airbase, just north of Venice. A local Italian restaurant that was a favorite of the Americans served a cheese pizza that was topped with French fries. It was very popular with children.
They also have a pizza with hot dogs mixed in with the fries. Wurstel.
You got me missing Napoli! I love the various Italian pizzas. Napoli was my second home in the US Navy. Napoli was our home port during Mediterranean cruises. From Napoli I visited Roma, Triste, Capri, Sardinia, and of course Pompei. I love the Italian Restaurants where there is no hurry. Dentice with caprese salad. Calamari with an Arugula pecorino pine nut, pear salad and a Coke with a lemon in it. Wish I was there!
"History of Pizza" should be a mandatory topic in whatever class it could fit in-
(Jk)
Also yeah, Pompeii's ruins even have preserved bread-
No, it's not a joke, the history of pizza is important! I swear there was this ignorant American I knew that said "Pizza is not international, it's in the US ONLY." No wonder why there are flat earthers...
@@cousinparty7266 wait those people exist? Honestly never knew but damn just more American Egoism
You're laughing. Professor Dave is gradually losing his mind about having to explain pizza and you're laughing.
You have earned the respect and admiration of all of us italians, congratulations
As a Catalan, I didn't expect you to mention us or coca.
I found it odd that you referred to us in the past tense, though... we're still very much around and we still eat all sorts of coca 😅
I'd also like to point out that Etruscan and Catalan peoples are separated by a 1500+ year gap.
If someone has to get credit for inventing the precursor of pizza, it's definitely the ancient Greeks, Persians, Etruscans, Romans, etc.
My medieval Catalan ancestors probably created the coca concept based on similar medieval pastries circulating around the Mediterranean at the time.
Anyway, you managed to make me wish I was in Italy right now, eating some of those awesome pizzas in the video 😉
The best pizza I ever had was actually in Bavaria. Visiting with friends of my mom’s from her teenage days, they took us out for pizza. We were in for a shock.
The restaurant was owned and operated by an Italian transplant and we had real Italian pizza, what we in the U.S. would call personal, but it blew any American pizza I’ve had out of the pizzeria. I live near Philly but have travelled and had many different ‘AAmerican’ styles, but authentic Italian is better by far.
What a competent history video!! You even pronounced correctly all the Italian words! Unlike many other channels! 10/10
I lost 60 lbs in 2 years eating pizza 3 times a week.
If you count your calories honestly and use healthy ingredients pizza is great.
I believe you! Pizza in Italy has never been considered "junk food"... :)
We all would lose weight if we ate 3 times a week, regardless of what it was.
@@stupidas9466 no I eat every day. 3 days I put in pizza. I just make sure I keep my 1800cal /day. just to prove, if you moderate you calories pizza is possible, it's actually great for energy, especially if you use home-made ingredients , not some greasy chain pizza.
The history we didn't know we needed! Thanks Dave 👍
Pizza really is peak human experience. It's right up there with fellatio, freedom, snuggles from puppies and/or kittens, naps, that spine tingly feeling from just the right note in music, or a really magnificent poo.
Someone once mentioned the phrase "bad pizza" around me and I had to correct them. It's similar to the idea of "bad sex," even though it may be not be the best sex or best pizza you've ever had at least you were having sex or enjoying pizza, thus making all consensual and willing acts of sexual relations or pizza consumption preferable than not having either.
One's life is quite honestly redefined by eating every style and manner of pizza from the North of Italy all the way to South. In every city and town you'll find display cases with unique takes that are really amazing and highlight the best of the immediately available ingredients from directly outside the city or a small farm a stone's throw away. I had honestly never really tasted what fresh food really was until my 1st trip to Italy. I really believe everyone should go to Italy and tour the entirety of the country, while sampling the pizza along the way. This may come as a surprise, but there are some other cool things to see and do in Italy while you are there to enjoy the pizza.
I beg to differ. Once in 1986, a couple of us were working an all-nighter and there was only one pizzeria open for delivery at 3:00 AM. We ordered a large pie and it was truly execrable. Let's face it - two hungry guys in the middle of the night could not choke this crap down. We wound up going to a nearby all-night convenience store and got microwave hot dogs, that miserable excuse for pizza was so bad. So yes, as unbelievable as it sounds, there *_IS_* such a thing as an objectively bad pizza.
In this case bad pizza would have the bad sex equivalent be a 400 lb hairy unwashed woman sitting on your face
@@Shaker626 Still not seeing a problem there. Throw a little parm and red pepper on the pie, throw a little shave and bath on the woman.
@@jeremysmith4620 Except the woman will refuse to do either in this case. You just have to go with the flow. Maybe she'll also do some scat play with you, but hey no bad sex, right?
@@Shaker626 It all washes off in the shower baby. Just put down a blue tarp, oil her down, and take a long drive down the Hersey highway to scat city. It's like getting anchovies, IDK why anyone would want it, but so many people do.
7:13 In Italy you can ask for a "pizza al piatto" and it is a full pizza like the one in the image, or you can ask for some spliced pizza, like in America, at restaurants they give you the full pizza, but at the pizzeria you can choose.
Plus fact: every restaurant that serves pizza has some special pizza that is different from one another, so if you plan to visit Italy, try different places!
Ho davvero apprezzato molto questo racconto sulla storia della pizza che è un piatto tipico italiano, e ne sono orgoglioso. L'esperienza di cui parli, seduti in una pizzeria italiana in una delle nostre piazze, è davvero qualcosa che fa star bene e in pace con il mondo. Grazie davvero!
Nice video! Being Italo-american I can appreciate it even more! :D
The kind of pizzas you mentioned are found pretty much everywhere, but you can also find loads more. Almost every pizzeria has its special toppings also to be competitive, and you can always find a good variety.
Wonderful video! In Catalan language, when you are really tired, you say you are "fet una coca" (you feel as flat as a coca). The closer version of the Catalan coca to the Italian pizza is the "coca de recapte". I've just had dinner, but I'm hungry again. Bravissimo, keep up the good work!
0:23 im an American of mostly German descent and i took that incredibly personally
Wow...I m hungry! A change of pace from your great informative math and science videos....thanx Prof Dave!
It is quite intertaning to watch Pizza develop over the years and a huge respect to the archives and historions that allowed us to review the history on one of humanity's favorite foods.
I see pizza, I click.
Are you VEGAN? 🌱
Can you do more videos on food history? This was amazing
Hands down: the best video on this channel. ✌️🍕
"Flatbread" is not pizza any more than milk is a milkshake. The Margherita pizza is the first product resembling modern day pizza (as well as one of the tastiest). I agree with you from that point, though. The American and Italian styles are considerably different today, although both can be incredibly delicious in their own right. There are a few places in the general Boston area that make pretty good "old world" style Italian pizza.
I need to have all of these!
This video was Delicious !
You covered more Italian pizza verities than I believed existed.
@Professor Dave Explains, i was wondering with all the different types of pizzas out there, may i ask what is your favourite Pizza?
Now this is a content type that I can absolutely get behind!
I SO love this history thanks a whole lot man! Yumi yumi yum!
I came here to learn calculus. But I stay for the pizza.
I miss thin Roman pizza, the funghi ones were always so amazing... i gotta go back to Italy
You just made me want to go Italy even more now. Thanks. lol But seriously very interesting video.
Excellent vid . . . I am half Italian and congratulte you on your presentation and Italian pronunciation.
Pizza in some areas of northern itaily such as trentino alto adige is far worse than southern or central regions. I unfortunately had some of the worst pizza of my life at a restaurant in a small town near bolzano. Research the cuisine of each region before visiting!
Now i yave a pizza craving and it's 12 am
Holy shizz dude, your content is so diverse. I subbed for kind-of-daily trivias
i fucking love this channel so much! i can learn about biochemistry and then relax with some pizza history! DAVE! I LOVE YOU!
Great, now I want pizza lol
Great stuff as usual, Dave! Love your pronunciation, but now I suddenly find myself very hungry, with no pizza nearby :/
You really nailed the issue with personal size pizzas.
The thumbnail made my mouth water
0:33 I thought those jalepenos were green olives for a second and I actually started salivating.
Thanks! I'm so ready for my test tomorrow.
There is a few inaccurate things, Tomato's where never brought from Peru or by Christopher Columbus which is so inaccurate as Columbus never landed on the mainland, they where brought from Mexico hence the name Tomato coming from the word Xitomatl which comes from the Aztec language not Incans, also the Incans never used the Tomatoes in dishes only the Natives from Mexico did. Tomatoes didn't become popular in Italy until the 1800's, prior to that it was thought to sicken people and was poisonous. When Spain occupied southern Italy (Sicily) in the 1700's it is believed they introduced cooking with tomato in dishes but was a very regional thing and in in Italy it was called Salsa. The first document I have read was in the 1830's with a man putting Tomato's on his pizza also the famous Naples story of the dude that invented the margarita pizza in 1889 but who knows if it's true.
Tomatoes did indeed originate from the Andes area. And I did not say Columbus brought them, I said they came to Italy after Columbus came to the new world. I specifically talked about Spaniards bringing back the tomatoes. Everything else you are saying is specifically mentioned in this video. Please listen more carefully.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Your right I miss heard on the Columbus part. You may be confuse the ancestors and the "wild" lineage does trace back to South America but I'm referring to the Cultivated 🍅 and the genetic bottleneck that was introduced in Europe comes from Mexico not Peru, there was a genetic study done in England to confirm this. Also Sahagun showed the diversity of tomatoes he saw in the Aztec Market in Mexico City and like I mentioned if it was from Peru it would have had a Quechua name to it like the Potato does at least in Spanish, but it does not. Just stating the facts man, as so many articles and website state the same inaccuracies
@@ProfessorDaveExplains Are you VEGAN? 🌱
I agree with you, Mr. Dave did get that piece wrong with his graphics on it being introduced from Peru when it seems it was really was introduced from Mexico. Wikipedia and also have read some studies on its genetic lineage that seem to agree with you. Many ill-informed websites or articles for some careless reason say it was Peru.
Of ffs how bout we just say the damn 🍅 came from somewhere south of the US??? Everybody wants credit for the 🍅!!!!! 😂
I used to live in Italy and I can agree sitting down at a true Italian restaurant with a Margherita pizza is astounding. Though I’m surprised you didn’t mention pizza americano, though I’m sure it’s made more as a joke than a real Italian dish; it’s a standard pizza but with cut up hot dogs and French fries as the toppings
Lol, tonight I'm gonna eat a diavola, cheers from Italy.
Wow I love when Pepe's pizza is mentioned in videos and on tv. I grew up on that and Everytime I go home I have to go there.
Very cool! Thanks!
absolutely very good sir
Was already gonna have a pizza tonight...this is just making it that much better
Blessed video
Such a random video but a very fun video none the less
This is a video I can get behind!
Now you have done it. I have o go to my local Italian restaurant and have to order pizza. Presenting their menu in the best possible pictures with correct pronunciation. Unbelievable. (You should sell this as a pizza ad). BTW: Who the heck clicks on dislike for his video?
Dislikes are from Japanese, Chinese, and Indian restauranteurs.
I'm watching a history lesson pizza at 10 am on Sunday morning. Life's good.
I never heard that pizza was an American invention, Though I was told that the pizza we eat here is completely different but it's actually quite similar if you ignore fast food restaurants like pizza hut.
Oh, you've changed your intro just to talk about pizza that's pretty damn cool.
Also you're pronunciation of the words is just incredible.
This comes shortly after a great Italian-run pizza place in my area closed. They were pretty adventurous, culinarily, and had cool Saturday late night menus that completely changed every week. (they weren't limited to pizza, and in fact they didn't start out as a pizza place) They had rules of Neopolitan pizza hanging above the menu. Interesting to see speck e mascarpone, as they had a speck & mozz. RIP Bread & Circus Provisions.
Hey, where is my Pizza Calzone?
Thanks for the great video and that you made me hungry.
Auguro buon appetito:)
Enjoyed the video, but felt that you missed including arugula/rocket as a commonplace topping; most notably for the calabrese
Do more of this
I was hoping you'd touch on the biggest thing in Italian pizza i.e. the two types of usages of doughs: Napolitan vs Roman
I don't expect pinsa to be touched upon (that's a whole nother TYPE of dough), but these two are so vastly different it's like eating two different dishes
Funny and interesting, thank you
The most important history lesson
You teach this a lot better than my teacher!
Tomato sauce, mozzarella, gorgonzola and walnuts. My local restaurant calls it a Saporita, which I believe roughly translates to "Tasty" and which I can confirm 100%.
Respect for the pronunciation!
Just a few days ago I saw a video of a man explaining that pizza as we know it today, among many other dishes from italian cuisine, are modern inventions and many of them influenced by italian americans. All of this was based on a publication made by an Italian professor who researched all of this.
Questo video era...... inaspettato. Molto inaspettato, ma comunque excellente e piacevole.
Wow, didn't knew Greece made garlic bread.
I like that way prof pronounce the cheeses and pizza
I am glad I never even heard of the pizza with mascarpone, well up until today.
Still my faith in humanity decreses everyday.
nice
What a ripper!!!!!
bravo
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And what about the Sicilian style pizza - Sfincione. It has quite a thick crust so could be popular in usa. ( can't tell i'm from europe).
Yes
I can’t imagine life without pizza. My favourite food 💚🤍❤
I've sat outside in the Sicilian town of Erice eating a Quattro Formaggi pizza. It truly was a good day.
Ooh I've been there! Way up in the hills. So neat.
Everyone loves pizza, but flat earthers think we live on it LMAO
Excellent 😅
I love pizza with just , sweet tomato sauce, mozzarella and basil, absolutely delicious.
Are downloads available?
The 2 euro pizza from the lil pizza stands on the streets in Italy... are the best.
I was actually hoping for more of an explanation why when I was in Naples I ordered a pizza at an authentic brick oven pizzeria and I got a pizza with and then cracker like crust with marinara sauce and olives only. No cheese and when I asked for cheese or even about it the staff seem almost disturbed by it but that could have likely been something lost in trying to translate as neither me or my buddy spoke Italian. He's right though, as different as it was I can't say it was at all bad. It was actually a great experience but I never got the no cheese thing. To me then cheese is what made a pizza. I know differently now.
As said in the video Marinara has only tomato, origano and anchovies. If you wanted cheese you should have ordered a margherita or others.
Usually neapolitans pizza are not cracker-like at all so you probably went all the way to Naples and proceeded to order a pizza from a roman-style pizzeria, probably the only one in the city.
3:15 in the middle easten/arabic colture the pitah is a traditional flat bread
Professore Davide! 🤌
How did you become my favorite TH-camr in just one video!?!?
This is a nice reminder that cultures can be so different
It would be interesting to know if the introduction of the tomato to Italian mariners had a declining effect on scurvy
Just one correction:
Mozzarella di bufala, as it is a feminine. Bufalo is the masculine and drawing milk from them presents... challenges.