Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. This article possibly contains original research. Pizza, a egg flour batter of Italian cuisine, has become one of the most recognizable and popular dishes worldwide.
Its widespread adoption into other cuisines, replacing the local traditional dishes, is traced to the early 20th century. Neapolitan yeast or brewer’s yeast, salt and water. Italy, is available in two different styles. Take-away shops sell pizza rustica or pizza al taglio.
Sicilian” pan, topped sparingly with shredded mozzarella, crushed uncooked canned tomatoes, chopped garlic and olive oil, and baked until the top bubbles and the bottom is crisp. Pizza quattro stagioni is a popular style prepared with various ingredients in four sections, with each section representing a season of the year. Pizza pugliese is prepared with tomato, mozzarella and onion. Pizzetta is a small pizza that can range in size from around three inches in diameter to the size of a small personal-sized pizza. It may be served as an hors d’oeuvre. Sicilian pizza is prepared in a manner originating in Sicily, Italy. Just in the US, the phrase Sicilian pizza is often synonymous with thick-crust or deep-dish pizza derived from the Sicilian Sfincione.
The slices are traditionally served folded with a slice of cecina, a chickpeas cake, as street food in Pisa, its province and the nearby provinces of Leghorn and Lucca. Pizza Hut opened its first restaurant in Hungary in 1992. Local pizza chains include Don Pepe, Pizza Forte, Il Treno, and Pizza King. While Iceland has many traditional American and Italian style pizza toppings, bananas are a common topping in both Iceland and Sweden.
The Maltese enjoy eating Italian style pizza and fast-food pizzas, including local produce. Pizza has become a household dish. In fact, it is most often known simply as “ftira” and is mainly sold on the island of Gozo. Norwegians eat the most pizza in the world according to a 2004 survey by ACNielsen 2004, 5. 50 million frozen pizzas were sold that year, with consumption being 22,000 tons of frozen pizza, 15,000 tons of home-baked and 13,000 tons of restaurant-made pizzas.