The History of the Margherita Pizza

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The History of the Margherita Pizza
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Pizza Facts

• How much pizza do the people of the United States
  eat each second?

350 slices of pizza are eaten each second! This
equals 100 acres of pizza a day!!
How big an industry is the pizza industry?
Each year pizza is a 30 billion dollar industry!
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How many pizza parlors are there in the United
States?
There are 61,269 pizza parlors and counting in
the United States!
What is the most popular pizza topping?
Pepperoni is the most popular pizza topping.
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What are the top five pizza delivery days in a
year?
1. Super Bowl Sunday
2. Thanksgiving Eve
3. New Years Eve
4. New Years Day
5. Halloween
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Worlds Largest Pizza

• The pizza covered 10,000 square feet and measured
  140 feet across!

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Who was Queen Margherita?
Margherita was the wife of King Umberto I and was
the first Queen of Italy (1878-1900)
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Why did Queen Margherita have a pizza named after
her?
This happy culinary partnership was endorsed, so
the story goes, in 1889 when Queen Margherita was
accompanying her husband, King Umberto I of
Savoia on an inspection of his Italian
kingdom. During her trips around the kingdom she
saw many peasants and poor people eating a flat
bread. The curious queen summoned her guards and
asked them to bring her a piece of this flat
bread.
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This endeared Margherita to her subjects and on
her next visit to Naples in the Italian section
of Campania she summoned Chef Raffaele Esposito
of Pizzeria di Pietro (now called Pizzeria
Brandi) to the summer royal palace to bake a
selection of pizzas for the Queen.
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Chef Raffaele designed a special pizza to honor
the queen. He embellished the classic Pizza Alla
Marinara with fresh tomatoes (red), fresh
mozzarella cheese (white), and fresh basil
(green) to resemble the Italian flag.
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The Queen loved the pizza, and what eventually
became Pizza Margherita has since become an
international standard.
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Pizza migrated to the United States with the
Italians in the latter half of the 19th
century. Genna Lombardo opened the first true
U.S. pizzeria in 1905 in New York City at 1/3
Spring Street.
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It wasnt until after World War II when returning
GIs created a nationwide demand for the pizza
they had eaten and loved in Italy that pizza went
public.
The original Pizzeria Brandi is still in
operation in Italy today!
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Pizza Jokes
How do you fix a broken pizza?
With tomato paste!!
What did the cannibal order for take-out?
Pizza, with everyone on it!!
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The End!