halfarockstarmom: Eat = Pizza (Eat Pray Love Pt.1)

Dear Readers,

Last week I found my fiancee Eat Pray Love dvd so nothing I can do than to watch it one more time. Basically, I love the story because it's full with self-improvement. Not many people really aware with what has grow in ourself.

The best part from the film is : "We call it "dolce far niente", the sweetness of doing nothing."

Someday I'll do my ll dolce far niente and tell you how does it feel.

Here I want to share something, I've been crazy about pizza. So last Friday and just got back from work where my entire world is exhausted. My dearest brother bought me (us-familly actually) PIZZA. Yummy, in my better consciousness I ate that 2 slice of pizza and heaven!

I know that Indonesian pizzas are far cry from the origin. Since I always love ITALY, I am desperately want to go to Italy and chop some pizzas for my self. Hope it'll come true in 2012. Naples, Yay!\

Pizza: The Soul of Italy by Justin Demetri

The word "pizza" is thought to have come from the Latin word pinsa, meaning flatbread (although there is much debate about the origin of the word). A legend suggests that Roman soldiers gained a taste for Jewish Matzoth while stationed in Roman occupied Palestine and developed a similar food after returning home. However a recent archeological discovery has found a preserved Bronze Age pizza in the Veneto region. By the Middle Ages these early pizzas started to take on a more modern look and taste. The peasantry of the time used what few ingredients they could get their hands on to produce the modern pizza dough and topped it with olive oil and herbs. The introduction of the Indian Water Buffalo gave pizza another dimension with the production of mozzarella cheese. Even today, the use of fresh mozzarella di buffalo in Italian pizza cannot be substituted. While other cheeses have made their way onto pizza (usually in conjunction with fresh mozzarella), no Italian Pizzeria would ever use the dried shredded type used on so many American pizzas.

The popular pizza Margherita owes its name to Italy's Queen Margherita who in 1889 visited the Pizzeria Brandi in Naples. The Pizzaioli (pizza maker) on duty that day, Rafaele Esposito created a pizza for the Queen that contained the three colors of the new Italian flag. The red of tomato, white of the mozzarella and fresh green basil was a hit with the Queen and the rest of the world. Neapolitan style pizza had now spread throughout Italy and each region started designing their own versions based on the Italian culinary rule of fresh, local ingredients.