Did pizza originate in china

Answer 1

No.

The Mediterranean region has a history of breads with toppings that eventually included pizza.

Origins of Sauce and Cheese on Bread Crust (Pizza)

Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods and dates back at least to the neolithic. Records of people adding other ingredients to bread in order to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history. The Ancient Greeks, for example, had a flat bread called plakous (πλακούς, gen. πλακούντος - plakountos) which was flavored with various toppings like herbs, onion and garlic. It is also said that soldiers of the Persian King, Darius the Great (521-486 B.C.) baked a kind of bread flat upon their shields and then covered it with cheese and dates, and in the 1st century BC, Virgil refers to the ancient idea of bread as an edible plate or "trencher" for other foods.

These flatbreads, like pizza, are from the Mediterranean area and other examples of flat breads that survive to this day from the ancient Mediterranean world are "focaccia" which may date back as far as the Ancient Etruscans, coca (which has sweet and savory varieties) from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, the Greek "Pita" or "Pide" in Turkish . Similar flat breads in other parts of the world include the Indian "Paratha" , the Pakistani "Naan" and the German "Flammkuchen".

The Chinese Myth

For much of the 20th century, many Chinese erroneously believed that pizza was an evolution of Chinese green onion pancake, brought back to Italy by Marco Polo. Chinese opinions on pizza's invention often run along lines like this:

Marco Polo missed green onion pancakes so much that when he was back in Italy, he tried to find chefs willing to make the pancake for him. One day, he managed to meet a chef from Naples at a friend's dinner party and persuaded him to try recreating the dish. After half a day without success, Marco Polo suggested the filling be put at the top rather than inside the dough. The change, by chance, created a dish praised by everyone at the party. The chefs returned to Naples and improvised by adding cheese and other ingredients and formed today's pizza.

The belief has since been dissipated in places like Hong Kong where people have gained awareness of the existence of focaccia, but is still extremely prevalent in some areas of mainland China. The belief that pizza was invented in the USA is also still quite prevalent.

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Answer 2

Pizza was made by Greeks today it is unsure if it were Athens or troy that made it but it is sure trojin hoplites would make it on there shields over a fire when they were away from the city the Italians only made a type of pizza which had been the first CHEESE pizza that was inspired by the china when Marco polo returned to naples and they called it 'neapolitan pizza'(Round slice is the term today from people who don't know a thing about pizza) knowing it was only a type and then Sicily invented the 'sicilian pizza'(Square slice) then that's when pizza became very famous to the world.

Answer 3

The Italians claim that they have created it, but Marco Polo found out how to make pizza in China. In China there is a dish that is like a pizza but the sauce and stuff is INSIDE, but Marco had trouble with it, and just put it on top of the wheat layer. Marco polo then brought that to Italy.

Answer 2:

No.

The modern pizza was invented in 1889 by Raffaele Esposito, a Neapolitan chef who wanted to honour Queen Margherita of Savoy. It was the very first "Pizza Margherita", and was topped with fresh tomato, mozzarella cheese, olive oil and basil, to represent the colours of the flag of Italy.

The actual word "pizza" is first recorded as early as the year 997, in Medieval Latin. The word referred to a simple flatbread in Naples which was not actually eaten, but was used as a gauge by bakers to test the temperature of an oven.

Other sources have suggested the true origin of pizza is Greece. In ancient Greece, a common food was flat bread baked with olive oil and cheese, the basis of pizzas still served today.

There is a belief that, when Marco Polo visited China during Europe's Medieval Ages, he brought back the scallion pancake and this was a precursor to the pizza. There are many versions of this story, so it is difficult to know where the truth lies.

Answer 3:

Probably not.

The long history of pizza-like topped breads suggests that they did indeed develop in Italy, following the introduction of various types of wheat breads into post-Roman culture. The similarity between various food dishes that are independently created does not mean that one type of food was "copied" in a region after being created in another. Modern pizza as was popularized in the US is not the same dish as appears in Neapolitan culture, becoming a new standardized form of the food.

Answer 4

That depends on what chinese food you eat.

It's really for a good taste if you eat the traditional chinese food.

Answer 5

yes. most people think it originated in Italy but it really originated in china

Answer 6

No.

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Answer 7

yes