WTF is Worcester Greek Pizza? Greeks don't make pizza.
I will take an order of Baklava with aGreek coffee though.
Pizza is a Neapolitan dish consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as mushrooms, olives, meat, etc), which is then baked at a high temperature.
Traditionally, of course, this is in a wood-fired oven.
The term ‘pizza’ was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the town of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania – then, still part of the Byzantine Empire.
Pizza’s etymology traces its origins to the Byzantine Greek πίττα (pitta), which comes from either the Ancient Greek πικτή (pikte) or πίσσα (pissa).
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However, its modern form evolved in Naples around the 18th or early 19th century.
Manchester-based pizzeria Rudy's is expanding to Cheshire - Manchester Evening News
The idea of a flat piece of dough topped with herbs and cheese originates in ancient Greece.
There is historical evidence that the ancient Greeks ate a flatbread called plakous (πλακούς) – which was topped with olive oil, herbs, onion, cheese, and garlic and then baked in a mud oven.
Since Naples was founded as a Greek city, modern pizza may be part of this Greek lineage of flatbread dishes.
By The Grecanici Nation.
Naples was founded about 600 BCE as Neapolis (“New City”), close to the more ancient Palaepolis, which had itself absorbed the name of the siren Parthenope
