The terminology of “Pizza” is traced back around one thousand years and can be found mentioned first in the Latin text in 997 CE. Alexandre Dumas, the author of “The Three Musketeers” travelled to Naples in 1835 and observed that the Neapolitan poor peasants survived with watermelon in the summer and pizza in the winter. The Lombardi’s owned a grocery shop in New York where they started selling the pizzas for the first time in the US in 1905. Initially, the pizza was considerably bought and consumed by Italian immigrants in the US. Soon after World War II, the soldiers who came from Italy popularised pizza which eventually spread across every section of people in the US. Get in touch with DoublePizza in order to get the best and delicious pizza of your taste and preference.

The early Italian immigrants mostly settled in the cities like Boston, New York, New Haven, Trenton, New Jersey and Connecticut. Eventually, the pizza was first sold in these cities in the US. In the beginning, the pizza was sold by the pie, but Patsy Lancieri of the Patsy Pizzeria in the city of New York started selling the pizza by the slice in 1933. Soon this became a trend and everybody around all the cities sold pizzas by the slice.

Interestingly, it is not only the human being who favoured pizza. A mini pizza named “Heaven sent pizza” specially designed with flour, celery, carrot and parmesan cheese for dogs which is very popular among dog owners. The deep-dish pizza which first came in 1943 later became the first pizzeria Uno chain.

Domino’s, another pizza brand in the contemporary world market came into existence in 1960. Tom Monaghan, the founder of the restaurant chain was the first-degree holder “pizza-ology” from the college of “Domino’s College of Pizza-ology” which was founded in the1980s. The most popular frozen pizza came to the market in 1962. However, the frozen pizza initially tasted like cardboard until Rose Totino the inventor of genius food got involved.

The famous Hawaiian Pizza was invented by Sam Panopoulos in 1962. Sam ran a pizza place in Canada. It is true that Italy pioneered the popularity of pizza, nevertheless, pizza is served across the world in every country or region with their  types or varieties, tastes, ingredients and creativity. In Brazil, the chefs serve pizza with green pie toppings while the French people prefer egg in the slice.