The pizza has ancient origins, some historical fact assume that this food was already in the kitchen with Etruscan forms and ingredients obviously very different from today. The pizza was born but poor as a dish that needs for its nutrition food simple and readily available: flour, oil, salt and yeast.

The real pizza was born around 1600 dall'innegabile culinary ingenuity southern need to make more attractive and tasty traditional crushed bread; beginning it was dough for bread cooked in ovens, seasoned with garlic, lard and salt Or, in the latest "rich", with caciocavallo cheese and basil.
The most recent pizza, that we know we dall'impasto soft and tasty if they speak between 500 and 600; pizza to the so-called "mastunicola" namely pizza with basil. It was prepared by putting on the disk of dough, lard, cheese, basil leaves and pepper.
Later in time that comes to "cecinielli", namely with the minutaglia of fish, especially, the fishermen had available.
The arrival on the tables of pizza modern case with the discovery of tomato! Found: flour, oil, salt and yeast.

Imported from Peru, after that was discovered America, the tomato was first used in cooking as a sauce cooked with a little 'salt and basil and only later, someone was the idea of putting it on pizza. Inventando so without wanting pizza.
So begins the era of modern pizza: in Naples and also in America.
Indeed nell'ottocento pizza with tomatoes up in America thanks agl'Italiani emigrating to New York and is made as to Naples.
In the same period in Naples occurrence of the "historic marriage" with the mozzarella. A Neapolitan pizza, Raffaele Esposito and his wife, prepared the famous pizza with tomatoes and mozzarella in honor of Queen Margherita, wife of King Umberto I of Italy.

The pizza and his wife at the request of Queen Margherita prepared three pizzas: one with the mustinicola, a marinara and a pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, thinking the Italian tricolour.
The Queen liked it tremendously and pizza for this reason called by the name of the queen.
It was then that the pizza Margherita imposed anywhere in the world.