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The History of the Margherita Pizza

The History of the Margherita Pizza. 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?.

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The History of the Margherita Pizza

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  1. The History of the Margherita Pizza

  2. 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!

  3. 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.

  4. What are the top five pizza delivery days in a year? 1. Super Bowl Sunday 2. Thanksgiving Eve 3. New Year’s Eve 4. New Year’s Day 5. Halloween

  5. World’s Largest Pizza The pizza covered 10,000 square feet and measured 140 feet across!

  6. Who was Queen Margherita? Margherita was the wife of King Umberto I and was the first Queen of Italy (1878-1900)

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. The Queen loved the pizza, and what eventually became Pizza Margherita has since become an international standard.

  11. 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.

  12. It wasn’t until after World War II when returning GI’s 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!

  13. 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!!

  14. The End!

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