PARISIAN FAVORITES: Pizza
In 1969, a food critic wrote: "This heart-stopping lump of dough which the most penniless of Neapolitan fisherman has trouble swallowing, fashion has made into a treat for genteel Parisians." This simple food has only grown more popular over time. When did Parisians first discover it? In 1911, Sansorto's already sold it but it went unnoticed. The same critic cites a pizzeria that opened on the rue Pierre Charon in 1953 as making it popular then. In 1955, French papers were already commenting on its popularity. Long before this however, in 1881, Urbain-Dubois had told his French readers how to make the dish. When Urbain-Dubois offered a recipe for pizza to his French readers in 1881, pizza was barely known outside Italy, if even outside Naples. So it is particularly nice to already have a recipe for it. Note this version is close to early accounts of pizza as a flatbread topped with fish, but also includes tomato halves, a (probably unconscious) nod to what the dish wo...
