Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting
Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting
Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.
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Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a painting which depicts what might be the precursor to the Italian pizza.
The flatbread depicted in the 2,000-year-old fresco "may be a distant ancestor of the modern dish", Italy's culture ministry said.
But it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza.
The fresco was found in the hall of a house next to a bakery during recent digs at the site in southern Italy.
But it lacks the classic ingredients to technically be considered a pizza.
What are the required ingredients? Can they be sure the ingredients are not hidden underneath the ones on top?
20 0 ReplyThey did a taste test, and noticed it had fresco cheese instead of mozzarella
17 2 ReplyI'll upvote this but I don't like it.
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90% sure it's tomatoes. They are not native to Europe and were only introduced in the colonial era.
13 1 ReplyI get pizza without tomatoes all the time. Chicken bacon ranch pizza contains zero tomatoes. I need to talk to this uninformed pizza gatekeeper.
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Required? I'd go with water, flour, yeast, salt, olive oil.
After that it becomes difficult as a pizza bianca with nothing else but olive oil would be strange, you generally get at least garlic and some cheese, but that's the minimal set of ingredients shared by every pizza.
OTOH, cheese might actually be a requirement, can't think of a cheese-free pizza right now. Oh this is going to piss of the vegans.
Things may or may not get more complicated, depending on what you consider Pizza, if you include Flammkuchen which doesn't require yeast or olive oil, and also comes cheese-free by default, instead using some sort of sour cream (and onions and ham). If you ever manage to get your hand on Federweißer, that is a killer combination.
8 0 ReplyPineapple and Canadian bacon, of course!
5 0 ReplyJust pile on the hot fruit
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may have been eaten with fruits such as pomegranates or dates, or dressed with spices and a type of pesto sauce
5 0 ReplyThat’s what makes this article great. The writer leaves it to your imagination!
2 0 Replyi would say tomato and cheese and think i see both
3 1 ReplyTomatoes were only introduced to Italy in the 1500s (from the Americas) so i highly doubt they had tomatoes in Pompeii at that time. :)
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I don’t know which ingredients are required but I don’t think they had tomatoes at that time. Wasn’t they discovered in the new world?
1 0 ReplyCorrect. They were over 400 years from having tomato sauce on pizza. They did have pesto, as the article mentioned.
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IS THAT A PINEAPPLE NEXT TO THE PIZZA??!!!
10 0 ReplyPineapple is native to South America, so probably not.
4 0 ReplyPizza Hawaii
4 0 ReplyThe only real pizza
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Thus this article shows how stingy the Italians are to classification which is real pizza that even the pizza Roman’s had are not considered true pizza
6 0 Replycool, just watched the movie "Pompeii" last night and then my wife and I were looking up photos from there. (I also made a homemade pizza yesterday)
4 0 ReplyWe are all pizzas on this blessed day
4 0 Replyspeak for yourself
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I wonder what does it taste like
2 0 ReplyBetter than Papa John’s
6 0 ReplyBetter ingredients. Better pizza. Pompeii John's
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Plaster, mostly.
4 0 ReplyClay mostly. And some excrement.
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