Kebab-pizza

[sturmwalkure]

The best pizza I ever had was in Italy. The American 'pizza' doesn't come close. In any case kebab pizza sounds disgusting.

[Sforza]

Point of interest, (the original) pizza is a ancient Greek recipe which found its way to south Italy via the immigration of Greeks during the Byzantine times. It's medieval (and ancient) name is Pita which pretty much means Pie in Greek...

I find it a bit funny because even though it's a dish of Greek origin we -Greeks- forgot how to make it and instead we have this greasy stuff that most of the rest of Europe has. It feels so wrong to have to go to Italy to eat what was pretty much what "your" ancestors knew how to make for thousands of years.

Anyway kudos to Italians for uphelding such a fine culinary tradition ...

[Peyrol]

If I remember correctly mainly ports in the Southern Netherlands like Bruges (now Belgium and the word was probably used as such in the South as the dictionary shows) had a lot of contact with Italy. Mainly Genoa and Venice. During the 17th century there was also a lot of contact with Italy and it seems that the word has spread on to the north too (it could be because they followed the same idea but it could also be that they adopted the word: in Danish and Norwegian the word for a plate is tallerken. In Swedish tallrik.


A Dutch etymological dictionary claims that the word has come from French:



Tailler. Meaning a plate for hacking. But despite of the linguistic origins: it could well be that the teloor was linked to the pizza and that the Italians simply began to use a plate afterwards while we got rid of the bread and only used the plate.

Another one goes for further and links it to Latin:



taliāre. To cut or to cleave.

"Tagliare" is the current it. word for "cut", so the ethimology can work well.

[Peyrol]

Point of interest, (the original) pizza is a ancient Greek recipe which found its way to south Italy via the immigration of Greeks during the Byzantine times. It's medieval (and ancient) name is Pita which pretty much means Pie in Greek...

I find it a bit funny because even though it's a dish of Greek origin we -Greeks- forgot how to make it and instead we have this greasy stuff that most of the rest of Europe has. It feels so wrong to have to go to Italy to eat what was pretty much what "your" ancestors knew how to make for thousands of years.

Anyway kudos to Italians for uphelding such a fine culinary tradition ...

Napoli was a former greek colony, anyway.
Is sufficient see the name of the city

[Meerkat.86]

I love kebab and Turkish cuisine, but kebab-pizza sounds disgusting.