Italians have been enraged by food historian Alberto Grandi, who has claimed that tomato sauce on pizza is an American invention. The culinary expert addresses these so-called “blasphemous” culinary theories in his and fellow academic Daniele Soffiati's book “La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste” (Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist), which attempts to dispel the myths around her, the Telegraph reported. “Pizza has gone red in America,” Grandi, who teaches at the University of Parma in northern Italy, told La Repubblica newspaper in an interview. The authors argue that tomato sauce was only really discovered by Italians when millions of people began immigrating to the US between 1880 and 1920. They then supposedly returned to the mother country and popularized the sauce. Before this culinary crossover, pizza in Italy consisted of a circular piece of focaccia with various ingredients, the authors argue. In fact, […]
Source: News Beast
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