{"id":5199,"date":"2014-07-22T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2014-07-24T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:47:04","slug":"is-pizza-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"Is Pizza Really from China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once heard at NYGC that pizza came from China, via Marco Polo. There is such saying, but it's not true. The supposed Chinese invention is called <span lang=\"zh\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:\u8471\u6cb9\u997c\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E8%91%B1%E6%B2%B9%E9%A5%BC\">\u8471\u6cb9\u997c<\/a><\/span><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cong_you_bing\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"Chinese_legend_surrounding_the_invention_of_pizza\" class=\"mw-headline\">Chinese legend surrounding the invention of pizza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"hatnote relarticle mainarticle\">Main article: <a title=\"History of pizza\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_pizza\">History of pizza<\/a><\/div>\n<p>There is a story in China that <a title=\"Pizza\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pizza\">pizza<\/a> is an evolution of the scallion pancake, brought back to Italy by <a title=\"Marco Polo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marco_Polo\">Marco Polo<\/a>. A humorous newspaper article, that also includes Marco Polo inventing cheese fondue when he is lost in the Alps and wants to eat Chinese <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hotpot\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hotpot\">hotpot<\/a>, describes the invention of pizza this way:<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cong_you_bing#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marco Polo missed scallion pancakes so much that when he was back in Italy, he tried to find chefs willing to make the pancake for him. One day, he managed to meet a chef from <a title=\"Naples\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naples\">Naples<\/a> at a friend's dinner party and persuaded him to try recreating the dish. After half a day without success, Marco Polo suggested the filling be put at the top rather than inside the dough. The change, by chance, created a dish praised by everyone at the party. The chefs returned to Naples and improvised by adding cheese and other ingredients and formed today's pizza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Historical evidence in Europe suggests that pizza was not transmitted to Europe by Marco Polo, but existed in the Mediterranean long before his time.<sup id=\"cite_ref-History_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cong_you_bing#cite_note-History-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cong_you_bing#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> The first recorded use of the word \"pizza\" dates from 997 AD (in a Latin text from the town of Gaeta in southern Italy),<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cong_you_bing#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> more than 250 years before Marco Polo was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once heard at NYGC that pizza came from China, via Marco Polo. There is such saying, but it's not true. The supposed Chinese invention is called \u8471\u6cb9\u997c: Chinese legend surrounding the invention of pizza Main article: History of pizza &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culinary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}