Italian pizza is basically an entirely different dish at this point. It happens. American pizza isn’t somehow less valid for having drastically changed from the original thing. It was, after all, brought here by Italian immigrants.
The wild thing is, what’s often thought of as Italian pizza isn’t even really older than American pizza.
It’s generally regarded as being created around 1890, and the first American pizza parlor opened in 1905.
Italian pizza is basically an entirely different dish at this point. It happens. American pizza isn’t somehow less valid for having drastically changed from the original thing. It was, after all, brought here by Italian immigrants.
The wild thing is, what’s often thought of as Italian pizza isn’t even really older than American pizza.
It’s generally regarded as being created around 1890, and the first American pizza parlor opened in 1905.
There’s lots of different regional Italian pizzas. Americans only seem to know the Naples style though for some reason.