When I lived in Australia and the first time I ordered a pizza they delivered me one with ham and pineapple and I had to educate them to the art of making a New York Pizza which they gladly did for me.
When I went to Venice I had the best Margarita Pizza I ever had in a little sidewalk cafe.
On any road trip I take in the USA, the best end of my day is to order in a good pizza and watch movies in the hotel or motel. Pure pleasure!
So here are some fun facts about pizza.
Did you know that October is National Pizza Month? We began National Pizza Month in 1987?
Did you know that Americans eat around 350 slices of pizza each second, or 100 acres of per day?
Did you know that pizza is a $30 billion industry annually?
Did you know that there are about 61,269 pizza parlors in the USA?
Did you know that everyone in the United States eats about 23 lbs., or 46 slices, every year?
Did you know that each year in the United States, 3 billion pizzas are sold?
Did you know that in America, the most popular ethnic food is Italian?
Did you know that children ages 3-11 prefer pizza over all other foods for lunch and dinner, according to a recent Gallup Poll?
Did you know that 36 percent of all pizza orders want their pizza topping pepperoni?
Did you know that we consume around 251,770,000 pounds of pepperonis every year?
A few popular pizzas toppings are: Mushrooms, Extra cheese, Sausage, Green Pepper, and Onion.
In the list of most popular pizza toppings in America, the last one is anchovies.
New gourmet pizza toppings have rapidly became popular. Some of those toppings include: Chicken, Oysters, Crayfish, Dandelions, Sprouts, Eggplant, Cajun Shrimp, Artichoke Hearts, Venison, Duck, Canadian-Style Bacon and Tuna.
Practically every kind of pizza topping has been tried by pizza chefs, some of those toppings being peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs, and mashed potatoes.
Did you know that Americans prefer meat toppings to veggie toppings by a ratio of 62 to 100?
Women order twice as much vegetable topping than men.
Did you know that some popular pizza toppings in Japan are squid and Mayo Jaga (mayonnaise, potato and bacon)?
Did you know that in India they like pickled ginger, minced mutton and tofu?
The people of Brazil prefer green peas for their topping.
Did you know that Russians serve pizza covered in mockba (a mix of sardines, tuna, mackerel, salmon and onions?)
What’s your favorite topping?
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I love the pizzas I make at home from scratch. I make my own dough, let it rise, flatten the dough, and place a topping on it.
My favorite is a plain Margarita – fresh tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.
I also love the following:
pizza with roasted peppers, parsley and garlic.
pizza with anchovies
pizza with a topping of thinly sliced potatoes. Oh that crispiness!
Commercial pizza is too soggy for me. They smother the sauce all over it.
What are needed are fresh ingredients and and some work. There is not substitute.
I never thought about pizza with thinly sliced potatoes. Sounds yummy.
Arlene Wright-Correll
Very easy! I learned it in Italy. After flattening the dough, cut the potatoes almost paper thin, spread over dough, sprinkle with olive oil, black pepper and salt. Proceed to bake.
I would also like to mention that I also make another pizza with sauteed onions and white raisins. Delicious!
do you have a simple receipt?
For a beginner, I suggest to buy a ball of dough from a chain grocery store (refrigerated section) or from pizza place. Once you have the dough flatten it almost covering the entire pizza pan, place the anchovies fillets and oil from the can throughout the dough, add chopped garlic and parsley. Then roll the dough with topping into a jelly roll fashion, and then flatten it again to about 1/2″. Let it rest for 20 minutes or so so that the dough will rise again. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 to 400 degrees for 20 min. or longer. The pizza bottom should be a golden brown. Good Luck!
Thank you much, I have a pizza pan with holes on the bottom or should I get the stone?
I use a pan without holes. Grease the pizza pan slightly with olive oil or other oil before flattening the dough on it so as not to stick. Let me know the results.
When I make it I use my pizza stone in the oven. I heat the oven up with the stone in it. Then sprinkle some cornmeal on the stone and slip the rolled out pizza dough in onto the stone using my pizza peel. (a large wooden paddle with a long handle.) The crust is always crispy.
In the summer you can make pizzas on your gas grill outside by simply putting the pizza right onto the grill grate as you would a hamburger etc.
Arlene Wright-Correll
I’ve recently been diagnosed with celiac sprue (gluten intolerance). Does anyone have a pizza crust recipe for gluten free flours? I so miss pizza in my life and the Friday night pizza with my significant other.
I googled the words gluten free pizza crust and got this link http://www.grouprecipes.com/s/gluten-free-pizza-dough/recipe/1/relevancy which literally has dozens of receipes.. so check it out.
Ahhhh…. a girl after my own heart……
ANCHOVIES, YOU’RE MY KIND OF WOMAN, PIZZA YES!