Post by markbelding on Apr 17, 2024 12:26:09 GMT -6
The world has America, not Italy, to thank for the rich red sauce that adorns pizzas, according to a book by a pair of food experts.
Italians only discovered tomato sauce in abundant quantities when they started emigrating to the United States in the 19th century, say Alberto Grandi and Daniele Soffiati in a book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste – Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist.
Until then, pizza in Italy was served without tomato sauce and would have consisted of a circular piece of plain focaccia topped with various ingredients, they say.
Not only did tomatoes originate in the New World but so did tomato sauce, the authors claim in their book, which promises to debunk “lies and myths” about Italian cuisine.
Italians only discovered tomato sauce in abundant quantities when they started emigrating to the United States in the 19th century, say Alberto Grandi and Daniele Soffiati in a book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste – Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist.
Until then, pizza in Italy was served without tomato sauce and would have consisted of a circular piece of plain focaccia topped with various ingredients, they say.
Not only did tomatoes originate in the New World but so did tomato sauce, the authors claim in their book, which promises to debunk “lies and myths” about Italian cuisine.
Personally I wasn't that impressed with the Pizza in Italy, and it was annoying that pasta dishes were so similar whatever city you were in. No mater where you were the dish with a particular noodle shape came with that same sauce. Not saying that the food wasn't good, particularly in Florence, just really not that innovative.
I always thought that the claims for Italians and pizza were dubious at least for pizza as we think of it because tomatoes are not native to European and like the study shows, a lot of what we think of as Italian was brought over by GIs during WWII.
