[Sca-cooks] YKYITSCAW...

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

And here I was thinking Michelangelo was about 100 years earlier than he
actually was. Wow.

Can we guess which half of Art History 101 I slept through? :-)

Margaret


> 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
>