2. ORIGINS
● In the 6th century, Persian soldiers flatbreads with cheese and dates on top.
● In Ancient Greece, people made flat bread called plakous.
● Early reference to pizza-like food in the Aeneid (Latin poem).
Ancient Roman pizza
3. NOWADAYS
● In 16th-century Naples, a galette flatbread was referred to as pizza.
● The pizza that we know nowadays was served in 1889 by pizza maker Raffaele
Esposito.