And of course modern pizza uses a key ingredient not even available until it was brought back from the New World.
Still has nothing to do with the United States. The tomato was introduced to Europe centuries before that country even existed. So I don’t really get what the point of this statement is. Every Italian dish needs to be from before 1500 to be authentic?
The point is that you don’t have a monopoly on defining what food is it isn’t “real” pizza, and old world cuisine very frequently isn’t actually as old as they claim it be. In many cases “new world” food has an even longer history than old world food, especially in South and Central America
Still has nothing to do with the United States. The tomato was introduced to Europe centuries before that country even existed. So I don’t really get what the point of this statement is. Every Italian dish needs to be from before 1500 to be authentic?
The point is that you don’t have a monopoly on defining what food is it isn’t “real” pizza, and old world cuisine very frequently isn’t actually as old as they claim it be. In many cases “new world” food has an even longer history than old world food, especially in South and Central America