Who invented pizza?
Pizza's Long Journey
Who invented pizza?
So you want to know who invented pizza. You picture one clever cook, one perfect afternoon, a triumphant "Behold!" Here's the twist: nobody did. Pizza wasn't invented so much as slowly grown, like a garden, over a very long time, by a very large number of hungry people.
Start with the plainest idea in the world: flat bread. People all around the ancient Mediterranean baked flat rounds of dough on hot stones. Then they did the obvious thing — they put stuff on top. Herbs, oil, cheese, whatever was nearby. Flatbread-with-toppings is thousands of years old, and it lived in many lands at once.
