Pizza Pizza!

At last, an episode on pizza! But that raises a tricky question:
what exactly is pizza? As it turns out, the original pizzas from
eighteenth-century Naples looked nothing like a standard slice—they
were more like a focaccia, topped with oil, herbs, anchovies, or
whatever else was on hand. Even after these first pizzas met the
tomato, the dish was a local peculiarity—most Italians thought
pizza was gross and weird until just a few decades ago. So how did
we get from Neapolitan subsistence snack to today's delivery
staple? Listen in this episode as we travel with
historian Carol Helstosky, author of Pizza: A Global
History, and Francisco Migoya, head chef at Modernist Cuisine,
from Italy to New York to Brazil and beyond, to tell the story of
how pizza conquered the world. All that, plus the tough questions:
is Chicago deep dish really pizza? How about bananas on top? What
about (gasp) a donut pizza? (encore episode) Learn more about your
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