June
21
/ 2021
Since the ancient times, people have been eating pizza in one form or another. By 2200 BC, Egyptian flatbread was topped with a spread called dukkah and evidence of flatbread consumed in Italy also date back to 2000 BC. Although it is known that the Persians, Etruscans and Greeks were producing something that can loosely be identified as pizza from 930 to 730 BC, there is still much that is unknown and claiming that these flatbreads with toppings such as spices or other foodstuffs constitutes ‘pizza’ can easily invoke offence and has become a hot topic in the age of the internet. Therefore, it is perhaps better advised to call them flatbreads and to describe the ingredients of the toppings
