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[Terry Decker]

I specified Neapolitan pizza, because Michelangelo's travels took him from
Rome, north.  I don't believe there is any evidence he visited Naples, which
was controlled by France and Spain during Michelangelo's life.

Roman pizza is another matter.

Bear

>It's also possible, and in fact fairly likely, I suspect, that he ate
>something called pizza that did not contain tomatoes. I was reading
>only the other day a book (whose title I forget and would have to dig
>for) about changes in immigrant Italian, Irish, Jewish, and other
>foodways once the cultures entered America. Somewhere in there is a
>quote from someone (possibly a Sicilian immigrant -- my memory could
>be faulty on this, but while it may be inaccurate, it usually doesn't
>make up stuff out of whole cloth), to the effect that the pizza in
>America is weird: they put tomatoes and cheese on it, instead of
>olive oil and onions like any right-thinking person. This would have
>been post-1880 C.E., and the idea being that, for example, a Sicilian
>would be more likely to encounter Roman or Neapolitan food in America
>than if he had stayed in Italy.
>
>P.S: "Hungering for America" by Hasia R. Diner (good name, huh?)
>
>Adamantius