other
Pizza Margherita
In 1889, Queen Margherita of Savoy reportedly grew tired of the rich, elaborate food served at court and asked to try a simple local dish while visiting Naples. A local pizzaiolo prepared a pizza topped with tomato, mozzarella, and basil—chosen to represent the red, white, and green of Italy’s newly unified flag. ###################### A popular legend holds that the archetypal pizza Margherita was invented on 10 June 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three different pizzas he created, the queen…