Helstosky, Carol,

Pizza : a global history / Global history Carol Helstosky. - 142 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm. - Edible . - Edible. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-130) and index.

Introduction -- History Lesson on a Plate: Pizza in Italy -- Pizza Americana -- The Little Meal That Could: Pizza's Conquest of the World -- The Future of Pizza -- Recipes. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Traces the history and cultural impact of pizza, from its beginning as a food for the poor in the eighteenth-century Naples to its rise as America's favorite food.

1861893914 9781861893918


Pizza
Pizza--History

TX770.P58 / H45 2008

641.824809