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Wherever pizza evolved from there is general consensus that the pizza we know today was developed and eaten by peasants in Naples Italy in the early 1800sThey created a dish of flattened dough that was topped with olive oil tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and soon the first pizza restaurant was opened in Naples in 1830At the time pizza was generally considered a peasant food and not appropriate to those of more royal or upper class standingsThis all changed in 1889  when Queen Margherita and King Umberto I toured the Italian kingdomWhile in Naples the Queen got a taste for pizza and summoned local pizza restaurant owner Raffaele Esposito to create a selection of pizzas for herAsking where pizza came from may seem like a simple questionAfter all its generally accepted that pizza originates from Italy but there are several theories as to where the original idea for pizza was actually developedSome say that pizza came from the Greeks who bought their plankuntos to Italy flat round bread that was baked with various toppingsOthers argue that pizza came from the pita bread of the Middle East while yet more say that it came from the unleavened matzo bread that Italian legionnaires bought to RomeYet another theory is that pizza evolved from foccacia bread a favourite snack that was eaten in Rome some 1000 years ago pizza

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