What is called Margherita, in honor of a crowned head, Marinara or four seasons the undisputed queen of the Neapolitan table is a global celebrity. But the real pizza is eaten only in Naples

At Marinara or Margherita, when you have a good pizza in front not waste time: it should be eaten hot, steaming.
Ischia are many pizzerias that offer this dish according to the traditional Neapolitan recipe, the disc of dough cooked in seasoned wood.
The Neapolitan dish par excellence, pizza, has a long history that reaches up to the ancient Romans.
Quote an article written by Vito Saturn and published a guide on very valuable and timely: the Guide to Pizza Italia by Edikronos.
The article, in a comprehensive, intelligent and funny, a track:
"History, geography, philology, philosophy and physiology of Pizza"

The pizza is the only dish in the world, capable of satisfying all five senses: sight, with its round, full, a colorful and vibrant colors, the smell when you dawn, fragrant and spande scent of oven and good ingredients, the touch when you hold in your fingers, divide the segments, to bring to your mouth without using fork and knife and sends you his sensual heat, the taste, I miss to say, if 'Oil is oil, the mozzarella is mozzarella, tomato is tomato, flour is flour.
And, finally, hearing. Say, because your hearing?
But because the pizza is not food to be consumed in solitude, with the squalor of the sandwich anointed all'hamburger, standing a hundred other strangers.
The pizza, although simple and fast, is a meal "of" company "from" Company, tasted food that arouses thoughts with friends and words of friendship and joy, that heat is not just that of the oven where it comes alive .

E 'food to the atmosphere.
E 'ancient and cultured food: its history dates back many centuries, and its presence is found in the pages of literature and history unimaginable.

We must do a great step backward, at least five thousand years and move to Egypt: the method of leavening and dough was invented there, at the same time the invention of beer, with good peace of those who think that this is a drink of birth Nordic . The Greeks, in their trade with the southern Mediterranean, brought on the European continent the baking and made the cornerstone of food popular.
But the bread in the hands of the Greeks, assumed various forms: not just the bun, but also the "maza memagmene", the disc of dough, thin and more or less soft, like a cake, which spreads or cheese based and herbs, salted fish or honey.
Hence cakes or buns.
And then, the imagination and the taste did the rest.

The first track "seized" of the pizza's in a few words from the greek poet Archiloco (VII century BC): These mercenary soldier by profession, had, so to speak, the hobby of poetry and reads it. " .. The lance, my cake is kneaded, the launches of the wine and I drink ISMAR supported the launch ...".

Pizza and wine, and then, from the most remote antiquity.
Even the Romans eat these kind of buns or pizza: It's called "moretum" and "table" according to the thickness and use.
The moretum was much more similar to our cake, or a farinata and was enriched with garlic, rosemary and onions.
The oldest and perhaps the only existing recipe and giuntaci intact is due to the pen and the extraction of Virgil, who put in a few tens of verses of a tasty (you should call it so) short poem, entitled to "Moretum", the morning of a peasant, who prepares his day, beginning with food.
And his food is really a cake: the great poet there describes the method of preparation, it lists the ingredients, we feel the smell ..
The other version, the "table" was more subtle and wider, and also food plebeian. On the tables of the wealthy, replacing the dishes.
We explain how.
Came to the table a single plate, from which each diner off his portion, to place it in the disc of dough baked in the oven, which served as a cover.

The "table" during lunch, is steeped in juices, sauces, condiments. And, finally, was given to the servants of the house, with all the leftovers that still there were deposited above.
A kind of pizza capricious, in short.
And the servants of the houses of ancient Rome, unknowingly, were the first pizza eaters in history.

What food was plebeian, yet testifies Virgil: Dido, Aeneas curse who flees from her, hopes the Trojans heroes can be reduced so badly to party, from having to eat the "canteen".

Throughout the Middle Ages have not yet spread the use of a plate for each diner, the "table" of Roman memory can survive, with a fortune that should be weakened, as you on the tables of the wealthy will be imposing dishes such as mean today.
But the people, in various forms and with different names, does enter into his usual diet of the hard wheat flour or other flours, which call farinata here, here piadina here focaccia.

Naples is a story itself.
Greek city always has been for centuries, even during the Roman Empire and the subsequent historical events, its greek style, at least until the middle of the twelfth century.
In greek, the round bread, crushed, seasoned, was called also "spruce" and became Naples "pizza".
There is no doubt that if the idea is controversial primogeniture (and Naples, as a city of Greek origin has all it takes) for at least the name is beyond the birthright.

For the rest, it engendered Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America and Europe in the first importer of many products that revolutionized the soil, since the'500, the entire way of eating. From corn to potatoes, from cocoa to tobacco, the "tomato", the diet of the old continent, it was changed so radically and deeply, not to look like more than before.
In Naples, then ruled the Spaniards and the Spaniards were in the 600 to bring the new fruit.
But even then, in Naples, we ate pizza and the proof is in a literary text, "de li Lu cunt cunt", which includes a story entitled "The two Pizzella. Was not, perhaps, the pizza with tomatoes, which was known more or less at that time was, rather, one that even today is called the "sea", the meal of the fishermen after the docking, hot hot and consumed directly on the wharf.

In'700, pizza with tomato has already reached the peak of the spread (always talk to classes) and is part of the usual diet of the Neapolitans. Fast food, economic, fairly complete in terms of nutrition, with its two hundred grams of bread, pasta, hot and seasoned, not encountered more obstacles. On the tables of the bourgeoisie does not arrive, over those of nobility, manco a think about it.

The pizza is baked in ovens that have direct access to roads, eating, standing, with his hands: I can imagine a gentleman in gloves and tuba, or a lady's hat with a veil, eating pizza with your hands and on the streets?
It takes time before the pizza reaches the middle class and rise even higher. And, anyway, before they leave the area of Naples, where still in the second half of the nineteenth century was, and still the food of the people of minutes.

"One day, an industrialist from Naples had an idea: I know that pizza is one of the Neapolitan cucinarie worship, knowing that the colony of Naples in Rome is very large, he thought of opening a pizzeria in Rome.
Of copper saucepan and turn you sparkle, the oven will always burned, all the pizzas they were there: pizza with tomatoes, pizza with Muzzarelli and cheese, pizza with anchovies and oil, pizza with olive oil, oregano and garlic. At first, I noticed the crowd and then went in decline.
Pizza, removed from its environment Naples, and seemed a stonatura was an indigestion, and his astro pale and set, in Rome: the exotic plant, died in this Roman feast.

In 1889, specifically June 10 1889, Raffaele Esposito, the pizza oven in Salita Sant'Anna di Palazzo, a stone's throw from the Palais Royal, had the honor of serving His Majesty your queen of Italy, the Margherita that, while "eating the chicken with your fingers", with its kindness and savoir faire was the cause of gaining new monarchy even more on the spirits of Republicans, as the Giosuè Carducci.

The following day, from the Royal House, we saw Don Raffaele deliver a ticket on paper, in which the "very truly, Galli Camillo, head of Services Table of Casa Real", informed him the satisfaction of His Majesty.
What's the name, the pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, which was the most delicious of all three proposals?
Were called to Don Raphael and those, and wake up early: "Margherita, in honor of His Majesty." And those words, accompanied with a curtsey.

Was made, its the luck, that of the pizzas with the name of the queen and the pizza in general.
No more tourists, since then, arriving in Naples, wanted to avoid the pizza.