Reading the linked article, that guy’s claims are not widely accepted. As they should not be - the idea that nobody put meats and sauces on flatbread until the 1950s or whatever is completely absurd. For one, archaeologists found a pizza-like dish in the ruins of Pompeii.
Meat and sauces on flatbread are not what makes a pizza.
Several food historians agree with him. People that don’t agree with him are regular Italians.
Italians never invented pasta or dried pasta either.
Modern pasta was invented in Sicily after the Arab conquest. They brought noodles from China and showed them the method of drying the noodles. Sicily would later become the Kingdom of Sicily in 1130 and pasta would first be developed with wheat there in 1154.
“His remarks were met with a significant amount of criticism and protests by historians, politicians, the Italian media, Italian chefs, food critics, as well as food professionals.”
I believe these claims as much as I believe that the someone named Ignacio in the 50s was the first person ever to put meat and cheese on topped of chopped up fried tostadas.
The pasta thing, fine. I’ve heard of the origin as China as well. So Italians started making pasta 900 years ago. That’s way more believable than that any really obvious food was created 60 years ago.
Okay, what is it you think constitutes a pizza? The article you lined mentions ‘the sauce’, though that seems far-fetched that nobody had put tomato sauce and cheese on flatbread before. That isn’t mandatory for pizza, though. White sauces and garlic sauces are also often used to make a pizza.
You are aware that the tomato is a fairly recent import to Europe, right?
