I Tested 1000 Years of Pizza

[@Xorrin]

You have to consider that in Italian "Pizza" means a lot of things like sweet spongy cakes (Pizza sbattuta) or salty meat and vegetables pies (pizza rustica), or even salty flatbread (Pizza scrocchiarella) or fried dough with stuffings (Pizza fritta). Food is fluid and changes through time and space

[@That-guy-there1]

Except Italians don't see it that way, you tell them about Chicago Deep Dish and they have a stroke lol whats really funny is the pizza we know today isn't even what pizza was since tomatoes weren't in Europe till trade fully opened with the Americas so imagine if italians then had a stroke when you put tomato and cheese on a pizza

[@youssef-way]

If your pizza is fluid, throw it away.

[@Xorrin]

@@That-guy-there1 You'd be surprised on what italians think is good pizza, from toppings like fries and wurstels, shrimps and salad or tuna and onions to different shapes of dough like pizza al padellino, pizza al trancio and pizza al taglio. Maybe the chicago pizza problem is not how it's made, but the quality of it

[@hugobranca]

Yes excatly, and you have a pizz and Pinsa Romana and pastiz, and whatever

[@Billyipod]

@@That-guy-there1to be fair, ( am spanish and have some italian friends, as italy is really close ) and the big amount enjoy a lot of types of pizza, like the nutella one for dessert, not all of them, but u would be surprised how much damage social media has made about what actual italians think, they would normally enjoy more a wood oven, than what type of pizza they are getting as long as the oven is a really good one ( for example )

[@bignoseandrew]

Since I don't seem to see anyone mentioning this: with old cookbooks, the reason you mostly don't see salt, sugar, oil or other basic stuff like that mentioned is because at the time, it was common sense that those are gonna be used either way. Like, a pastry chef from that period won't think "Hmm, I should note down the sugar and salt on the ingredient list", because they didn't think anyone would forget or not think to put them in themselves.

[@macsarcule]

Spot on.

[@tasorodri]

Agree for salt, but not sure about the others, specially sugar can vary a lot from dish to dish, it's not like salt that you more or less season to taste, sugar was probably noted on the recipe because the quantity it's obvious

[@xsethy7728]

A funny fact is that in Brazil, as it was a country with many Italian immigrants, there is a lot of Italian cuisine spread, and the main one is Pizza, there are several states in Brazil that have their own style of pizza.

[@GPerotti100]

The Brazilian Rodízio it’s not for beginners kk

[@AarayKyramud]

Are there any German foods?

[@xsethy7728]

@@AarayKyramudQuite a lot, especially in Santa Catarina, a Brazilian state, there has a city founded by German immigrants, Blumenal, there they even celebrate Oktoberfest.

[@michalneubauer4325]

Brazilian pizza is an abomination

[@bravokiloromeo]

@@xsethy7728 Espirito Santo as well - quite a few German towns within 1-2 hours of the capital city of Vitoria

[@WilliamRayCook]

The real key event that brought pizza forward was the introduction of the tomato to Europe from central Mexico.

[@FranciscoRamirezAraya]

0 mention of that

[@mart1n287]

Turned from pizza history real quick to just american pizza history

[@tonytagliatelle9225]

Well yeah Italy didn't innovate on their pizza much passed a certain point and then when pizza got to America they went psycho with it as they always do. Huge country with an extremely diverse population means a lot of experimentation.

[@Tomolenoob]

@@tonytagliatelle9225 You don't need to improve a product that already achieved perfection. Especially by doing it worse. But pizza actually improved, but the story would be more technical and less "entertaining/storitelling"

[@Zultzify]

yeah no mention of more italian styles or canadian pizzas which i am familiar with, pictou county pizza, donair and hawaiian pizza are all unique takes on it.

[@tannerdavisr]

Tends to happen when you make the same thing for hundreds of years. You get left in the past. Innovation and making history is what gets you placed in history books. Even if that innovation is a regression like most frozen and fast food pizzas in the US

[@fabiosarrica379]

@@tonytagliatelle9225 that is absolutely not true. There are so many different styles of pizza in italy today. But americans think neapolitan pizza is the only pizza that exists in Italy..

[@ItsJustLisa]

Jeno Paulucci was from Minnesota. His parents were immigrants from Pergola, Italy. They came to Minnesota where his father started out as miner (like my own great-grandpa did), later running a grocery store. And he wasn’t Chinese Italian; he liked Chinese food and started the brand Chun King. Yes, he made Chinese food more flavorful with Italian seasonings. The brand Michelina’s is named for his mother. It was a sad day in Minnesota when Jeno died in 2011. He was a home state son who made good.

[@lompass379]

A bit bummed that he didn't talked about other style of pizzas not native to the US, like the plethora of styles existing in Italy

[@fairyhaven13]

Yeah, that's what I was expecting after I actually visited Italy and saw the extremely different pizza they still have there. He just went from a couple Italian basics to focusing on USA pizza.

[@Chris90.]

@@fairyhaven13 thanks for saving me 18 minutes and 18 seconds of my life then.

[@fairyhaven13]

@@Tyborz There are pizzas in Sweden, in France, in Germany, all over Europe, not to mention the alternate Asian and Mexican varieties. All he showed was American pizza. I wanted to see a more thorough analysis, not just America.

[@fairyhaven13]

@@Tyborz oh, boy, we've got an "America is the center of the world" preacher over here. I might live in America but I know that the rest of the world has tons of creativity about their food. Just because it's not familiar to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Try doing some research instead of being so narrow minded.

[@Jacob-ec9og]

​@@fairyhaven13 He spoke nothing but facts. America innovated Pizza more then all other countries combined. Deal with it.

[@Nosceteipsum166]

This went from "history for everyone" to "history for Americans" really fast.

[@323starlight]

Funny thing, pizza was referenced in The Aeneid, an Epic Poem written by Virgil. Where the surviving Trojans of the Trojan war were looking for a new place to settle and were cursed to never find it until they were hungry enough to eat their tables. Which ironically came to pass when they were eating flatbread with toppings.

[@Dr._is_sleepy]

Thank you OSP!! “Pizza” and Italians have been a thing since Augustus(and probably before

[@limeparticle]

Tables = bread on top of which food was served, which was traditionally not eaten. Trenchers.

[@rehanvalsanpillay9532]

i hear cgp grey digging a grave just to roll in it

[@WickedFelina]

Yes! As an Italian I THANK YOU! I left 3 comments re the subject. I don't know who the heck this "SCOTT" guys is but he knows NOTHING about the history of Pizza which you will find on the murals of Pompeii, and Olive oil which has been around since 8,000 BC. NOT an exclusive item but a staple in Italian cooking. There are olive trees in Puglia (my region( which have been around for over 2,000 yrs. Olive oil has been trading around the Mediterranean since the mid century 1,000 BC. Ancient Egypt - it was a staple after the Greeks brought it. Rome traded with North Africa and Greece because they could not get enough. It was NOT something that was a luxury or rare in Italy or Rome ever! The Margherita and Neapolitan pizzas were on menus before Queen Margherita went to Naples. "Margherita" means "daisy." The toppings were arranged around the center of the pizza like a daisy.

[@regularhuman7939]

Virgil mentioned. Motivation acquired

[@darrenc9607]

Pizza peaked for me Xmas 1972. I was a kid, we were in Naples and purchased a pizza that was handed to us through a window. I can remember the smell, flavor & texture of the crust, and have been searching for something close to that ever since.

[@ethanblair7351]

Your Makeing Me Cry It Sounds Beautiful

[@markbock3027]

You missed a page in your Book of Pizza: french bread pizza, invented in the ‘60s by Bob Petrillose, who ran a food truck called Hot Truck that parked on the edge of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. The PMP (Poor Man’s Pizza) was an important late-night part of my college experience a quarter century later. Certainly not traditional, but it was delicious.

[@vitoiacopelli]

He miss so many things

[@iRaps1]

@@vitoiacopelli tell 'em Vito. His Neapolitan style pizza WASNT EVEN SOFT AND CRAUUNCHY

[@jashonwestbrook3362]

@@vitoiacopelli you want hour long vid

[@ph1shstyx]

My stepmom attended cornell in the late 70's to early 80's and talks very fondly about it, especially that it was open late when all the kids were getting back from the bar

[@blairhoughton7918]

It's not real pizza, but it's fucking genius.

[@BlueKnight688]

Fun Fact: Lobster and caviar were both originally peasants foods as they were both seen as pests of the ocean since back then they were both pretty common.

[@Trekiros]

If you're a pizza lover, you should try seeing what other countries have done with their pizzas beyond the US. In France, we have "pizza savoyarde", for example - a type of pizza with potatoes, bacon and sometimes even raclette cheese. And my local pizzeria has a truffle pizza which is soooo good. The kind of things that would probably start WW3 if our Italian neighbours knew abut. And I bet every country has their own little local pizza flavors like us.

[@AussieGal501]

Australians were the first to put pineapple 🍍 on pizza 🍕

[@BillHicks420]

@@AussieGal501 Nothing to brag about, it is horrible :P

[@CheeseLover23]

That sounds delicious, was that invented in France? Because I’ve eaten similar pizza with potatoes (and pancetta or bacon) in Italy and America. Never heard of having raclette but I’m sure that’s great. Truffles have also been used on pizza for a while now. And honestly the majority of the innovation in the pizza world these days is indeed happening in America where there’s been a huge influx of high quality, new and interesting pizza shops all across the country. There has always been a lot of mediocre pizza in America, but it is definitely shifting towards more high end and quality pizza. Obviously there’s also interesting things happening all around the world too but America has to be the leader…

[@ShouterOfSanity]

pizza with potatoes... so the French wave the white flag even when cooking??

[@bigbelix]

Bruh Raclette pizza sounds amazing

[@dadbanger22]

I will not accept any Little Caesar's slander

[@jerricaleonard2123]

Neither will I.

[@Madara_kind_a_sus]

How You forget the Calzone and roman style pizza 😱🙀👍🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@proxoid2322]

YES😱

[@johnliampham3410]

Roman style?

[@Madara_kind_a_sus]

@@johnliampham3410 yeah don't you know about that 😭😱

[@swagmiredoesall]

Madara canonically loves calzones. Power scalers do with that what you will

[@Johnny76624]

And Hawaiian pizza :D

[@marceloquejinho]

2:15 the kind of cook that only lives once, the PizzaYOLO

[@Danielfhz]

Underrated comment fr

[@darthplagueis13]

No offense Joshua, but the 16th century is not the "dark ages". It's the Renaissance. Recipes at the time were often written either for other chefs or simply for authors themselves to help them remember the details. In other words: They were written by people who already had a decent idea of the proportions of ingredients needed for something. If by "dark ages" you mean the medieval, then it's roughly 500-1500 AD. Using "dark ages" in this way will make some historians want to strangle you. Another use for "dark ages" is roughly the 5th to 8th century, because we got very few sources from that time which makes getting a good idea of what it was like very tricky - so it's dark in terms of we can't really tell much about it.

[@savaunbrown]

Tell em

[@lethn2929]

KZbinr chefs keep waking up and thinking they're a history channel and they really need to stop

[@lichh64]

You should sue him, this is not acceptable

[@KlutzOfAMan]

say it louder for those in the back

[@xio1062]

i love how you started with “no offense” and then just went OFF about history haha ur officially my fav commenter ❤

[@01gtbdaily30]

You missed the most important date in pizza history . It was 1962 and a Greek immigrant who lived in Canada named Sam Panopoulos made the first Hawaiian pizza and forever changed the pizza game.

[@Nick-op6oj]

Why you bringing up the 9/11 of pizza like it's something to be celebrated?

[@doll8part]

I know it makes people upset, but I love pineapple on pizza. I love sweet and savory together!

[@ShouterOfSanity]

fun fact: thanks to Sam Panopoulos it's called "Panopoulus pizza" or just "Pan pizza" for short! (fun fact 2: the above "fun fact" is 100% untrue lol, but it just *sounds* right)

[@themangolorian4074]

@@Nick-op6ojdont diss hawaiian

[@WheresYourMotivationAt]

@@Nick-op6oj”WAA waaa waaa I hate sweet and salty pizza even though I love eating sour candy and love being pork belly with sugar”

[@alexpendy1575]

actually this video tells just a short story of america's pizza, a lot of recipes from around the world and specificaly europe where it originated, and other pizzas iterations were left out

[@RedRisotto]

Not really.... There is only so many ways that you can bake a flat bread... that fits the timeline to the pizza that we know today. Which country "pizza" would you have included here? None? Thank you, point proven. (Flammekueche (Tarte Flambée) is not pizza...)) It is it's own thing. Nothing to do with pizza.

[@blairhoughton7918]

This video is a shitpost book report by people who waited until the last minute to look up the subject.

[@redeye1016]

It’s 18 minutes long, were you expecting a documentary? 🙄

[@alexpendy1575]

@@redeye1016 i expect what the title says but nowdays everybody is just a clickbait

[@aaronhool2802]

​@@alexpendy1575to be fair it's pretty on point for what the title is

[@Brainwav]

Two things I'm surprised you missed. Sicilian-style pizza and Sbarro. The former because it's delicious, the latter because of the sheer ubiquity.

[@Cleo-h3x]

Man I would love to try this .

[@thegeekfanatic]

How on earth could Josh forget the pinnacle of Pizza innovation that is the Lunchables Pizza??

[@HTPZ]

Pizza is the goat

[@JollyPlayz]

Easily

[@railasvuo]

I agree.

[@JollyPlayz]

@@railasvuo I agree with you agreeing

[@blairhoughton7918]

Def goated. Up there with tacos and roast chicken.

[@danyuzunov]

​@@blairhoughton7918 everything besides popcorn and deep-fried thighs chicken isnt even a comparison

[@bpseaton]

I think the fact that you were able to make all of these wildly varying kinds of pizza from the past using stuff that's readily available (pizza oven notwithstanding) kind of trumps any previous period. We live in a post-history world, and for food, that's amazing. Great video.

[@JohanFaerie]

I kinda want to try some of those original "Pizzas". Especially that first one. It may not be Pizza as we know it, but it still sounded tasty

[@littlemotorcyclemovies]

I really learned something today! A slow zoom on every shot, why not? Looks good. Thx.

[@jmhproductions5276]

Torino’s pizza…. “Only an iPad baby would love this” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DeanJMU]

4:36 Joshua is a vampire confirmed. Eating pizza in 1860s Naples

[@MusicForTehWin]

Not talking about the actual best Italian pizza styles is wild to me. Props for the research though.

[@samsterling3332]

I was so confused by the 1000 years of pizza, but knowing it's about written records rather than archeological findings makes sense, since the Greek (who became the Romans, then became Italians) are the ones with the oldest version of pizza with flatbread topped with fruit and vegetables was seemingly commonly eaten

[@nicoalexander774]

My dad passed away this week on Monday and pizza was his favorite food! 🍕 Enjoy those fresh pies up in heaven dad! Love/miss you always! ❤ ❤

[@Chris90.]

im sorry for your loss

[@nicoalexander774]

@@Chris90. thank you! 🙏🏼

[@BlakeBlack99]

I'm sorry for your loss, mines passed away January and I feel your honoring your dad the best way.

[@kristaps2924]

This video format was absolutely amazing. I love love love this style of video and hope to see more!!!!!

[@IsaacBarton14]

He ain’t pregnant but he always delivers

[@EphemeralProductions]

😂

[@dirtyfiendswithneedles3111]

He might look pregnant if he wasn't on a diet.

[@Guavster]

😂💀☠

[@Mr_ADK]

Bro....

[@Mr_drama2311]

Nice one 👍

[@ColeVisserman]

Having worked for Mellow Mushroom, experimenting with any and every topping you could and probably shouldn't put on pizza. Then making traditional Naples style pizzerias, but with a twist on seasonal takes. To fine dining special pizzas with some flare. I think we live in a time where we have access to so many options. We can take a trip back in time, try something divine, or just indulge in wild concepts while still calling it all pizza. I think that's pretty cool

[@teamcoltra]

I know it probably doesn't have a solid place on the timeline but I'm really happy that we are trending towards wood fired pizza being normal or at least most cities with a decent population will have one wood fired place now. I love wood fired pizza

[@MuscleCarLover]

There is NOTHING like a wood oven pizza

[@maccarossi]

I think you cannot beat a classic Italian Margherita pizza, perfect dough, San Marzano tomatoes, Buffalo Mozzarella, Basil, Olive Oil

[@WickedFelina]

NOTE TO "SCOTT" Olive oil has been a staple in Italian cooking for thousands of years, with evidence of olive cultivation and oil production dating back to as early as 6,000 BC. The ancient Greeks introduced olive trees to southern Italy around 800 BC, and by the time of the Roman Empire, olive oil production was well established. The Romans used olive oil in cooking to add flavor and fat to dishes like polenta, vegetables, and cereals. They also used it as a remedy, moisturizer, and to light lamps.

[@cjhuntsinger2277]

Man these food history videos are absolute bangers

[@WickedFelina]

In Pompeii there is a mural of round semi flat bread (or, Pompeiian style they used to call it) with a variety of toppings. This may be the first Pizza though we don't know what they called it because everybody died. Since it is in the bay of Naples, I can see where the idea may have spread. A flat bread with toppings was eaten by Romans. In the hills, where food was low, peasants didn't kill their livestock because once they're dead they're dead. So, they would use the leftovers from the night before (no refrigeration) chop it up, flatten out dough spread it over it and slide it into their wood fire oven. That's your first form of pizza. There is NO DEBATE! (As you can see I am Italian). Margherita means daisy. The toppings were spread around the pizza in that design. There are menus for pizzas in Naples which includes Margherita before that Northern Italian dynasty destroyed Southern Italy killing more Southern Italians than ALL the wars Italy ever fought! As you can see I am still sore about the subject. May I remind you, "Scott Weiner" e NO ITALIANO! I have said my peace. No I haven't! Olive trees in the Puglia region are over 2,000 yrs old. Olive oil was traded all over the Mediterranean for at least 6,000 yrs. It has been around since 8,000 BC. It is in every recipe going back before Roman times. It was a staple ingredient and NOT as "Scott" said some kind of luxury. The Levite priests used it as a holy anointing oil (See Exodus). It originally came from Greece and spread to Egypt and the Levant. Southern Italy was colonized by Greeks 10,000 yrs ago. North Africa is a hub of olive trees. Who is this "Scott???"

[@one-eyepadidally8449]

I love you! You bring the real info! Scott Weiner is obviously Jewish - no Italian at all. I’m American - my mom’s side is half French and half Italian. I was fortunate to get to know my full-blooded Italian great-grandmother really well before she passed in my early 20s. Her parents migrated over from Naples. She was the funniest person I ever knew in my family, and oh my could she COOK! To this day I am absolutely KICKING myself that I never wrote down her marinara sauce recipe! I’ve never tasted anything like it since. 😢 I remember how the smell of it simmering away would fill up her house, making me salivate intensely all day, making it so hard to wait until super to taste it! I wish I could find a similar recipe so bad. Last year I tried asking a niece of hers (who’s also full Italian) if she knew the recipe, or what hers is, but she was of no help, because she only makes meat sauce and I’m vegetarian. She said the process is too different where you can’t simply cook without meat and expect it to taste just as good, so I didn’t bother getting it from her. All I managed to get recipe-wise from my great grandmother was her Italian cookies recipe, but it was really difficult getting her to put everything in measuring cups and teaspoons/tablespoons etc for me to be able to write it down, because of course she’d just eyeball everything lol. Kitchen scales weren’t a thing back then - I wish they were! It would have been so easy to get more recipes from her! As far as I’m concerned, nothing beats Italian cooking! I’m jealous you get to enjoy such high quality recipes and ingredients all the time. :)

[@one-eyepadidally8449]

P.S. You guys only allow organic farming, right? No Monsanto mass pesticides, no GMO, etc, yeah?

[@sascharai1335]

Max Miller did his best to recreate that Pompeiian "Pizza", it looked delicious tbh

[@tashajuli2399]

What about Boboli premade pizza crust? As a kid, having a bunch of those and throwing a pizza party where everyone got to make their own, selecting their choice of toppings is a fond memory. Was the pizza necessarily fantastic? No, but the experience was.

[@anastasiyafedorina7719]

15:21 т

[@one-eyepadidally8449]

I used to love making Boboli pizzas in the 80s and early 90s too! They were perfect for us kids to make ourselves dinner by ourselves. They definitely tasted better than frozen pizzas!

[@one-eyepadidally8449]

@@anastasiyafedorina7719 That frozen pizza at that time stamp has nothing to do with what the OP wrote.

[@SupraViperhead]

I'm making my own dough right now; pizza is one of the dishes that I keep changing because there are so many variables. You have the dough variables. From how much Flour, to how much yeast, to how much salt, how much water, whether to use olive oil or not. How long do you ferment it for? Cold Ferment for a couple days or room temperature for a few hours? Do you autolyse it? Then you get to the sauce and what kind of tomatoes (if you're going with traditional sauce) to use, whether canned or fresh, what seasonings, herbs, and spices to use, whether you want them to be fresh or dried, cold sauce or cooked, etc... Then there's the toppings. How many different ones do you want? If you go with mushrooms, are you going for canned or fresh? Do you cook them or leave them raw? If you cook them, how do you cook them? If you go pepperoni, are you going pre-cut or a whole stick to cut yourself? Thick or thin? Do you want to crowd the pizza with other toppings or leave it sparse? I usually make a Pepperoni and Mushroom Pizza and Buffalo Chicken Pizza with Green Onions. I have made Chicken Chipotle Pizza in the past as well. Cooking is equal parts Science and Art.

[@hallaloth3112]

Nothing beats a homemade pizza. You find how you like your dough/crust and you can put literally anything you want on it. . .and its pretty inexpensive.

[@Facts4Fun1]

About 50 years ago I was on holiday with my parents in Southern Italy. On the way back to the hotel one night we could smell a heavenly smell coming from a small shed (garden shed sized) we bought some slices of pizza. The only flavour option was cheese and tomato(with basil). It was hot, freshly cooked at to this day is by a country mile the BEST pizza I have ever eaten. I have tried pizza all over the World but none of them came close to that little shed in Italy. I would give my right arm for a pizza from that shed…….If only…

[@erikrick]

You should try Japanese pizzas. The topping choices are so far outside the norm, but so good

[@ApothecaryTerry]

Not just Japan - even around Europe I don't think there's an ingredient that exists which I've not seen advertised as a pizza topping. Sausage & chips, curry lamb, doner kekab, chocolate & pistachio and even caviar, because someone had to...

[@chefdavemartin]

love this! such an awesome concept.

[@Ella-Bee96]

I find it pretty funny that we spent 200 years trying to 'improve' upon the 1800's ish version of pizza, only to come full circle and realise that way was probably best all along. There has been such a huge influx of traditional style wood fired, natural yeasted pizza place cropping up in the last decade or so where I live (in the UK)- with just small modern twists of ingredients (using local/seasonal veggies, different herbs etc), and honestly I'm so happy to see it. I think maybe today is the best- but only because we learned to go back to basics. To simplify recipes, and focus instead on the best quality ingredients and brightest flavours.

[@Sacto1654]

Which explains why pizza purists prefer the Neapolitan (originally from Naples) and the New York style pizza (which is closely related but used American-sourced ingredients). New Haven "A-beetz" has their place but the styles we saw in the early 20th Century in New York City are pretty much the reference standard for pizza in the USA.

[@neofitou]

I think it's now. Last week I made Surf and turf pizza. Fermented dough, slices of 3 day beef ribs, garlic prawns, anchovies, and pineapple with fresh mozzarella. Legitimately the best pizza I've ever had and I have youtube to thank. Especially Joshua Weissman for the 3 day ribs. Chilli italian meatballs is a close second.

[@vitoiacopelli]

Well if you accept my knowledge about pizzas… is the first PIZZA MARGHERITA was born in 1889 in Brandi pizzeria Napoli but the real first ever pizza was really born in Greece ❤ after all very nice video hope you accept my pizza knowledge

[@osieorb18]

I would say Armenia or further into the middle east... nitpicking on "pizza" vs "pide" is pretty questionable.

[@doll8part]

I think this just also means our cultures and where we're from aren't so different after all. There's a flat bread version of everything in almost every culture and we put toppings on it. :)

[@martinperring5286]

Pizza Marinara pre dates pizza Margherita by over 100 years. Flat breads with toppings have been a integral part of Mediterranean culture for a long time. There are Italian flat breads older then the pizza. The sardenaira is older still then any Napolitanon pizza and it's highly likely that the romans ate a form of pizza too. As they appear in mosaics. None of this makes flatbread with toppings particularly Italian as similar dishes are extremely common throughout the med. Including Greece. It is incredible difficult to locate the origins of food. Culinary ideas spread very wildly very quickly and the Mediterranean was a super highway that helps spread things even quicker. It is also popular in the caucuses. Look at Georgian food. It's basically all topped bread!

[@gregbrunner599]

One thing I do know, thanks to you Vito I now make great pizza's because you taught us viewers so much with great details and will always be my mentor. Love your pizza videos and how much you have shared and taught millions. Thank you

[@marblox_blue]

1,024 years of pizza: ✅ 1,000 years of pizza:❌

[@generationgeek]

Technically the ‘Chipotle of pizzas’ was a chain that the actual Chipotle founders had in Colorado. It was very good (for its style) and each of the Pizzeria Locale spots had a slightly different vibe. They had a few pre-selected options they could make, but you could go down the assembly line for toppings if you wanted it custom, and then they put it in the large brick oven. They also had meatballs which were decent. They had a really good chili oil for drizzling on the pizza/crust which I miss

[@watermelonman122]

For some reason, Pizza Rev in Boulder rings a bell.

[@blairhoughton7918]

Mod Pizza is utter fucking garbage. How it got a spot in this "history" of pizza is a mystery.

[@AS-kq7hw]

@@blairhoughton7918 IKR! Their crust is so bad and the toppings are pretty questionable. Its one of those places where the plainer your pizza the better. Avoid toppings and focus on sauces to make the best of a bad situation.

[@gmmeier321]

Boulder - Audry Jane’s Pizza Garage

[@OmegaGamingNetwork]

@@blairhoughton7918 I mean he called it "The chipotle of pizza" and chipotle is utter fucking garbage as well. Also it is still better than anything the chain pizza companies have shit out, which granted is a pretty low bar but for the point of history worth mentioning.

[@katarh]

That very first recipe you made? I had something not unlike that in Italy two weeks ago. They served it at breakfast. They make not call it pizza any more but the people of Italy are still definitely eating that exact same thing.

[@KitchenFoods]

Here's the corrected version of the phrase: 😊Wow, it's amazing that you have tried testing 1,000 years of pizza! 🍕 Thanks 🙏 for sharing the great recipe video.

[@timgregson5533]

This was a masterpiece. Best you've ever done. I doubt you'll receive the remuneration that will equal this single video.

[@RonaldoKR7.]

17:58 Well obviously its today bc if you want to make a 1889 Italian pizza(wich is the best one) you know the recipe and you can just make it even tho all the other fckuries exist

[@Iammattjupp]

Great video! Loved the content!

[@Marlon-fr5hg]

Pizza is AMAZING.

[@Toastedbuttsack]

Pizza doesn’t exist

[@peterskorec8246]

I love to see the operation get shredded is going nicely! Good job buddy

[@Shea3224]

Too bad the people who first tried the first “pizzas” couldn’t live to taste the delicious taste pizzas are today!! 💯

[@kinjunranger140]

They were too busy seeing if their kid was still living.

[@armydoomgamer]

about future pizza. Pizza Ball from Doctor Stanger Multiverse?

[@DrAlwaysFirst]

Ha. Josh said Wiener.

[@Withrix]

Peak writing

[@ytann]

Kaguya is that you?

[@keata1315]

This was probably your best video in a while *chef kiss*

[@zacflash]

Would love to see Josh deep dive into tallow fried recipes and taste compared to seed oils

[@Zathren]

Considering how bad most seed oils are for the human body, it wouldn't be a bad idea for a video. Animal fat for cooking has gotten an undeserving bad rep.

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@Zathren Tallow is the reason why McDonalds fries were so damn good.

[@yellowdog2181]

Growing up and living in southern Ct , we take it for granted that we can pretty much get a good pizza on basically any corner, then you travel around different parts of the country then you realize just how lucky we are.

[@blairhoughton7918]

Same thing people in Arizona feel about Mexican food everywhere else.

[@morrius0757]

Salt was rarely mentioned in recipes not because they didn't have any, it was because they expected you to already know to add some in.

[@maxwellsiko7172]

Love your voice over Josh. One of the best vids this year.

[@danielthomas9575]

pizza peaked when the new york slice was invented

[@lizziewing]

Wow Josh your health journey is WORKING!!! Your skin looks so healthy and glowing. Wow. Glowing from the inside out! Great job!

[@LaserMob.]

"pizzaiolo" most difficult Italian word, is spelled almost like the single letters /pizzai'ɔlo/ if you want to say correctly say pizza-yolo

[@MrOvnours]

Tasting history with Joshua Weissman! I like the format, very interesting)

[@Shea3224]

I’ve been testing the delicious Pizza my whole life!!

[@Sagew63]

Looking fittt Josh!! Let’s get a video about the recipes you’re eating on a daily basis for your diet!

[@testermonkey2304]

massively disappointed he didnt tell us his favorite style of pizza

[@WowBloke]

Based on his reaction I’d say the Margherita from late 19th century

[@AlexDestroyerOfEarth]

​@@WowBloke lmao definitely not, it was the new York style, he even says "let's see if anything else comes close to the Pinnacle"

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Because whenever someone on KZbin tells you their favourite kind of pizza it just invites hell in the comments

[@AlexDestroyerOfEarth]

@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN also very true

[@Actuallylucian]

Serving all these pizzas consecutively would make a great pop-up restaurant. Pair it with history lessons of the time period along with each pizza, call it “pizza storica” and you have a peak culinary experience. Somebody pls do this and lmk wya

[@maurobraunstein9497]

Bagel Bites might be kind of disgusting, but they are the reason why we can eat pizza in the morning, evening, suppertime, etc. See, when pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime. Since then, regular pizza has become possible a breakfast item since it can be considered just a Bagel Bite with a different crust. Thank you Bagel Bites for giving us permission to eat pizza for breakfast!

[@skapunker21]

i see what you did there, and now that jingle is stuck in my head.

[@jkbuckway]

Such Good Eats vibes and I’m here for it!

[@alexandrucrisan2122]

1:30 Read and document yourself move on the dark ages myth

[@Leon-zb7ei]

6:28 That's the saddest looking neapolitan pizza I've ever seen

[@MelodyWR]

I love the history and taste test throughout the video keep it up

[@skyhax_]

Bro the thumbnails need to change...

[@darthzayexeet3653]

So basically Pizza didn’t get better since 1889 😂

[@RanielDadcliffe]

that was an odd video, it wasnt for me

[@mattl7424]

So you hate pizza

[@RanielDadcliffe]

@@mattl7424 no, i like it very much but i liked the old videos more where there was actual cooking, apparently i should have cleared that with you before. im deeply sorry you feel that way and i wont change anything about it. thank you

[@Carlos2312]

Remember when this channel was about cooking?

[@luketargett2233]

One of the best videos on this channel

[@grizzledgranny4600]

Very entertaining, and educational. Love you 🎉

[@DonPatrono]

gotta be honest, as an Italian who has eaten a LOT of pizza both at home in Italy and all over the world, I do agree with you Joshua Modern iterations of "traditional styles" of pizza are the best, because it's basically the concept that made the original Neapolitan Pizza famous....but with modern processes and ingredients to help along the way Also toppings, I do love toppings on pizza....literally no Italian will ever tell you "oh my favourite pizza is Margherita" unless they're on a diet and Margherita is the only pizza they're allowed to eat

[@smoaty4891]

This felt like an episode of Good Eats and I'm here for it. More like this, please.

[@albertosernarivas361]

Joshua, you forgot Italy after pizza reached America. A video on how it evolved in Italy in more recent times would be interesting.

[@acchilly3167]

Can we all agree that joshua's jawline is just as sharp as the knife hes using to cut the pizza?

[@Foodgeek]

Neopolitan pizza wins for me every time 🤤🍕

[@jonnysixx]

LEGIT BELTED OUT LAUGHING 😂 when he spit out the little ceasars 😂😂😂

[@PaoloGiordano-k5q]

Pizzaiolo is roughly pronounced pizza-yolo, which accidentally is a great motto

[@Cinnamon_Cinnamoroll]

In Singapore little Cesar’s is made on the spot when you order, and it’s actually really really good bcs it’s moist

[@williamsimmons7823]

Ok. I'm going to be the one to do it. In 1962 a Greek born Canadian named Sam ponopoulos created the first ever Hawaiian style pizza adding ham, bacon, pineapple and other toppings to pizza. This is based on his experience making Chinese food with a sweet and savory combination. Didn't go.over too well at first but has become a globally used (and often debated) pizza topping.

[@Rueescorner]

You can pronounce ‘Pizzaiolo’ as ‘Pizza-YOLO’ 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@starchysocks1820]

as an stationary lover, that book is AMAZING!

[@chalando6124]

awesome as always joshua

[@christianperez7846]

Nothing beats a New York style slice. Crispy thin crust, the right amount of grease 😋

[@lilylively8905]

Hi Josh! I read some place Pizza came originally from Persia the time of battles between Sassanid soldiers battling Roman soldiers. Persian soldiers spreading the dough on their metal shields and putting what ever they carried food items they could on it and make it over the fire.

[@martinperring5286]

I mean it's plausible but it definitely is not remotely a known fact. Food history is fascinating but it's shocking how flimsy the evidence is for basically the origin of anything. Even some pretty recent foods.

[@veridico84]

To be fair, the best time for pizza is always now

[@Kmath_]

Actually flat bread similar to pizza in shape but looking closer to focaccia was found in ruins of ancient Pompei (conserved in solidified lava....) and Vesuvio erruption that burned the city to the ground was in 79 AD.

[@LarsEckert_Molimo]

I mean, what did I expect, but this is very very US-centric. Germany took Neapolian Pizza and made it thicker, France had already been doing tarte flambee for ages, the Swedish eventually put weird fruits on it, Zanzibar ran kompletely wild with the name pizza.