General Article Pizza: the food of globalisation and modern popular culture

Topic Selected: Globalisation Book Volume: 416

By Ferdinand Orleans-Lindsay

Origins of pizza

Pizza is reputed to have been invented in Italy and received its first burst of publicity, when the Neapolitan baker, Rafael Esposito, created a pizza in honour of the Queen of Italy’s visit to Naples in 1889. The Queen was Margherita, and the pizza n...

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