[Sca-cooks] period pizza

[Mark S. Harris]

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> Margaret asked:
> There's a local iteration of a chain pizza place that claims to make
> authentic Neapolitan pizza. They've distributed cards with a coupon
> for a
> free lunch pizza to the surrounding businesses, to get us all to come
> in
> for lunch, and on the front of this card is a repro of a drawing which
> might be Michelangelo, with the phrase "Even Michelangelo took a lunch
> break".
>
> And all I could think of was "But, tomatoes aren't old world!
> Michelangelo wouldn't have eaten tomatoes!"
But does this "Neapolitan pizza" have tomatoes? I'm not that familar
with all the varieties of pizza by regional name, but pizza doesn't
have to have tomatoes or tomato sauce. We have discussed the
possiblities of period pizza before, but I'd be interested in seeing
more documentation.
pizza-msg         (15K) 12/ 3/98    Period pizza and similar items.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/pizza-msg.html
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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