Hola mis queridos amigos, hoy vamos a hablar de la "pizza" pero al estilo americano. Veremos los orígenes de esta famosa comida italiana en Estados Unidos que se ha extendido por todo el mundo. ¿Venís conmigo?
Info: Speak Up magazine.
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PIZZA, THE AMERICAN WAY.
If you walk through New York today and see all of the places selling pizza, you will probably think that pizza is a quintessential American food. But in fact, American pizza is a relatively new phenomenon.
TASTE OF HOME
It all started with Italian migrants who came to America in the 1800s and brought their homemade pizza recipes with them. For years, pizza was something that Italian families ate in their homes. Then, in the early 1900s, pizza restaurants began opening in urban areas on the east coast where a lot of Italian immigrants lived; LOMBARDI'S, the first pizzeria in the US, opened in New York City in 1905 and is still open today!
PIZZA FOR ALL
It was after World War II that pizza became popular with people of all ethnicities and incomes, American soldiers returning to the US wanted to eat the delicious pizza they'd had in Europe, and so pizzerias began opening all over the country. The first restaurants were independent, but in the 1950s, chains of pizza restaurants began to emerge.,
THE CHAIN AGE
Today, the American pizza industry is valued at about $37 billion and is dominated by pizza chains like PIZZA HUT, DOMINO'S and PAPA JOHN'S. In fact, Domino's Pizza, which opened in Michigan in 1960, is the biggest seller of pizza in the world, with more than fifteen thousand pizzerias globally.
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MOST POPULAR AMERICAN PIZZAS
1 NEW YORK-STYLE PIZZA
Developed in New York City by immigrants from Naples, this style of pizza is normally very big and has a thin and flexible crust that is thick and crispy at the edges. It is topped wit tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, and sold by the slice, to go.
2 NEW JERSEY TOMATO PIE
In the US, pizzas are also called "pies". This style of pizza was developed in New Jersey, as the name suggests. It is a style of "upside-down" pizza; the mozzarella and toppings are placed on the crust first, with the tomato sauce on top. This stops the sauce from making the crust soggy.
3 CALIFORNIA-STYLE PIZZA
This is California's take on the New York-style pizza. It has the same thin crust but is topped with ingredients that are popular on the west coast, like artichoke hearts and goat cheese.
4 QUAD CITY-STYLE PIZZA
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities in northwest Illinois and southeast Iowa. They have made famous this style of pizza, which has a thin crust, topped with a zesty sauce and Italian sausage. It is cut into strips, ot slices.
5 CHICAGO-STYLE PIZZA
Also called "deep dish", this pizza has a deep crust and the dough may contain cornmeal. It is baked in a round pan and fillings are layered on in an inverted order: with mozzarella on the bottom, pepperoni or bell peppers in the middle, and tomato sauce on top. This prevents the cheese from burning.
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VOCABULARY
-QUINTESSENTIAL: por antonomasia.
-HOMEMADE: casero.
-INCOMES: ingresos.
-CHAINS: cadenas.
-CRUST: corteza.
-THICK AND CRISPY: gruesa y crujiente.
-TO TOP: cubrir.
-BY THE SLICE: a porciones.
-PIE: pastel.
-UPSIDE.DOWN: del revés.
-SOGGY: pastosa.
-ARTICHOKE HEARTS: corazones de alcachofa.
-GOAT: cabra.
-ZESTY: ácido.
-STRIPS: tiras.
-DOUGH: masa.
-CORNMEAL: harina de maíz.
-PAN: sartén.
-BELL PEPPERS: pimientos.
**DO YOU LIKE PIZZA? WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE ONE?
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