Is Pizza really more American than Italian?

The pizza effect says that some foods are invented in their home country but only flourish when travelling abroad with diaspora. Is pizza actually a good example of this effect? Alberto Grandi seems to think so, but not everyone agrees. We have our usual comedic look at the situation in a new food and cooking history story.

Links to the videos of cherished colleagues:
‪@HistoricalItalianCooking‬   • Medieval Pizza - The Origin of Pizza  

‪@TastingHistory‬   • 500 Year-Old Pizza VS Today  

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Interviews with Grandi
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000...
https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-d...
https://www.ft.com/content/e668042e-1...

Literature and sources relied upon within:
Helstosky, C. (2008). Pizza: A Global History. Reaktion Books.
Scappi, Bartolomeo. The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook). Translated by Terence Scully. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)
Dumas, Alexandre. Le Corricolo (1841) via https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9262
De Bourcard, Francesco. Customs and Traditions of Naples and Surrounding Areas Described and Painted, Volume 2 (1866) - consulted via translated extracts.
https://www.lacucinaitaliana.com/ital...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi....
https://artofeating.substack.com/p/it...
https://pizzanapoletanismo.wordpress....

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
01:15 - The Pizza Effect
02:20 - The (very complicated) history of pizza -Early days
03:45 - First pizza recipes in the Renaissance
07:00 - Scappi's (sweet) Neapolitan Pizza
10:30 - Lazzaroni Pizza
15:20 - Artusi Pizza
18:20 - Pizza goes International!
19:20 - Conclusion
21:38 - Special Announcement and Thanks!

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