The world's favorite food

If you think that hamburguers are the world's most popular food, you, like so many people all over the world, are wrong.

The most popular fast food in the world is something much easier to make, to serve, that has much more varied than the hamburguers, and it's delivered to your front door or served in fancy restaurants. It is, of course, the pizza.

The pizza is an really old kind of food that had been gradually evolved over the years. No one, no where exactly, it is from, but, we do know that had been gradually evolved over the years. For example, the name pizza is from the name picea, given by the Romans.



Naples, in Italy, is the pizza capital of the world. In the 18 century, the King Umberto I and Queen Margherita herad about pizza, and asked to try it on. An pizza maker came, and made a pizza with red tomatoes, mozzarella, cheese and green basil. The Queen loved it so much, that the new pizz was named Pizza Margherita in her homour.

But the greatest producers and consumers of pizza in the world are the Americans.

Here it is some curiositys about pizza:

1- Americans eat 350 slices of pizza per second.
2- Pizza is a $30 billion per year industry.
3- the world's first pizzeria, the Antica Pizzeria Port' Alba, which opened in Naples in 1830, isstill there.
4- In Naples, on Valentine's day, the cook huge pizzas in open air squares for everyone.