Neapolitan Pizza by Roma?
Shouldn't she be making it Pizza Romana style?

Dat smugface.

Dammit Roma, now you made me hungry!

Stone bread? I don't know anything about cooking but I remember that there's pizza stone or something to make pizzas.... Are they the same?

Ordering Pizza. This made me hungry.

Demundo said:

Stone bread? I don't know anything about cooking but I remember that there's pizza stone or something to make pizzas.... Are they the same?

The fixed brick oven used for Neapolitan pizza has a stone bed. It's on this bed that you bake the pizza with a raging fire burning near it.

Amusingly enough, however, Tomatoes are not native to Italy. In fact, they come from North America, along with Potatoes and Corn. So it's safe to say this pizza is not 100% pure Italian.

Though you could argue that, thanks to the great trade empires of Venice and Genoa, just about anything can be considered original Italian food. Much like the pasta influenced by eastern noodles.

Sturmgeschuts said:

Amusingly enough, however, Tomatoes are not native to Italy. In fact, they come from North America, along with Potatoes and Corn. So it's safe to say this pizza is not 100% pure Italian.

Though you could argue that, thanks to the great trade empires of Venice and Genoa, just about anything can be considered original Italian food. Much like the pasta influenced by eastern noodles.

...well, using that line of reasoning, almost no food would be "100% from where it actually is" since species have been moved and altered over the course of human events.

Whatever that means.

The "pasta comes from China" idea is basically pure myth invented to promote pasta in the USA. Horace (around 0 AD) describes Lasagna as an everyday food in Rome.

Also, Roma: that's new york stile pizza, with slices of tomatoes on top. Not that it isn't good, but true Pizza Margherita, neapolitan style, only has tomato sauce, not slices.

...though she's SAYING tomato sauce, but making it with slices too, so maybe she's just trying to make something that Iowa will find more familiar?

Della said:

...well, using that line of reasoning, almost no food would be "100% from where it actually is" since species have been moved and altered over the course of human events.

Whatever that means.

The "pasta comes from China" idea is basically pure myth invented to promote pasta in the USA. Horace (around 0 AD) describes Lasagna as an everyday food in Rome.

Also, Roma: that's new york stile pizza, with slices of tomatoes on top. Not that it isn't good, but true Pizza Margherita, neapolitan style, only has tomato sauce, not slices.

...though she's SAYING tomato sauce, but making it with slices too, so maybe she's just trying to make something that Iowa will find more familiar?

Despite the research, I doubt the artist looked too much into it.

I am still liking Iowa as a character used to introduce food stuffs.

Sturmgeschuts said:

Amusingly enough, however, Tomatoes are not native to Italy. In fact, they come from North America, along with Potatoes and Corn. So it's safe to say this pizza is not 100% pure Italian.

Though you could argue that, thanks to the great trade empires of Venice and Genoa, just about anything can be considered original Italian food. Much like the pasta influenced by eastern noodles.

to be honest the tomatoes arrived in italy thanks to Spain. In that time (1500 - 1600) Southern Italy was under spanish occupation, and the spanish needed the appropriate climate and soil to cultivate the american plants, and because of this the tomatoes (but also potatoes, beans and mais) became primary ingredients in the italian cousine

Della said:

...well, using that line of reasoning, almost no food would be "100% from where it actually is" since species have been moved and altered over the course of human events.

Whatever that means.

The "pasta comes from China" idea is basically pure myth invented to promote pasta in the USA. Horace (around 0 AD) describes Lasagna as an everyday food in Rome.

Also, Roma: that's new york stile pizza, with slices of tomatoes on top. Not that it isn't good, but true Pizza Margherita, neapolitan style, only has tomato sauce, not slices.

...though she's SAYING tomato sauce, but making it with slices too, so maybe she's just trying to make something that Iowa will find more familiar?

Plus this, here in Italy the pizza's preparation is a proper and true art, and someone needs to spend a lot of time working as apprentice (o "a bottega", as we say) to be recognized as a Master, and since the napolitan Pizza Margherita has become a UNESCO's world heritage in 2013 even the most prepared and skillful "pizzaiolo" needs to face a very difficoult exam to be considered a "maestro pizzaiolo"

I want Roma to cook me pizza too.....

Has anyone else noticed the travesty of Iowa, who is originally from Brooklyn, eating Chicago-style "pizza"?

Apparently they have fundamentally better mozzarella in Italy made from the milk of Italian buffaloes. Not the sort of thing you can get across the pond.

Cliff_Edge said:

Has anyone else noticed the travesty of Iowa, who is originally from Brooklyn, eating Chicago-style "pizza"?

Hey, it's perfectly good quiche! Well pseudo-quiche. Now, calling it 'Pizza' is a different matter...

Cliff_Edge said:

Has anyone else noticed the travesty of Iowa, who is originally from Brooklyn, eating Chicago-style "pizza"?

I dont think you can even call it "Pizza"

kkxrs said:

I dont think you can even call it "Pizza"

It's a pie! A very cheesy and tomato-ey pie!

This after one of the best Jojo part 4 episodes .

Cliff_Edge said:

Has anyone else noticed the travesty of Iowa, who is originally from Brooklyn, eating Chicago-style "pizza"?

I don't know why, but that "Iowa from Brooklyn" part just got me. XD

Cliff_Edge said:

Has anyone else noticed the travesty of Iowa, who is originally from Brooklyn, eating Chicago-style "pizza"?

Actually, there may be a reason for that. The US Navy has some deep roots and presence in Illinois. One of the main things is one of their boot camps is there at Naval Station Great Lakes, right by Chicago. Whether the artist knew about that historical link, I doubt but throwing this out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Station_Great_Lakes

It's a big hub for training enlisted recruits for the Navy and something of a point of pride, from what I gathered. They used to have NTCs (Naval Training Center) at Great Lakes, Illinois, Orlando, Florida, one in San Diego, California and the "feeling of superiority" Great Lakes had over the others (I'm sure USN members can chime in on that LOL). I think it had to do with the climate. San Diego one closed down for recruit training purposes in the 1990's drawdowns but Great Lakes was maintained. I think Orlando is still going.

I also remember from buddies in the Navy the nickname for NTC Great Lakes... "Great Mistakes" LOL

Edit: BTW, if you got a friend going into one of the military's boot camps, be sure to mail them brochures of a different military service while they're there. It'll be "fun."

Its not about where you get the ingredients, if you are the 1st one to make it publicy known, then that thing is originally yours. Even if there are ppl before you who make similar stuff but doesn't get much attention to public

Because it doesn't mean you can make something interesting even if you have all the ingredients in the world for yourself. Its the creativity that grown from doing many experiments

Demundo said:

Stone bread? I don't know anything about cooking but I remember that there's pizza stone or something to make pizzas.... Are they the same?

Sorry, butterfingers.

Sturmgeschuts said:

Amusingly enough, however, Tomatoes are not native to Italy. In fact, they come from North America, along with Potatoes and Corn. So it's safe to say this pizza is not 100% pure Italian.

COLOMBIA(n exchange)!!!

Roma, the ducks need you right now !