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Default Easy home-made pizza (with picture). Eat your heart out.

<Alan> wrote:

> Well, be a snob if you want to, that's your right.


You might want to check a good dictionary for a definition of 'snob'.
You might be surprised.

> However, a person can make DELICIOUS pizza quickly and
> easily -- in a non-snobby way.


You do not have to get defensive if you do not know the differences
between diffrently prepared foods or are unable to appreciate them. To
anyone who had pizza made by a master pizzaiolo in a good Italian,
especially Neapolitan, pizzeria, the differences to anything else is
immediately apparent. It is akin to comparing foie gras to chopped
liver. Pizza is not, nor has it ever been, a home-made dish. Anything
made at home in the way of pizza is but a pale imitation, however tasty
in itself. In Italy, pasta has always been associated with home and
family; pizza, on the other hand, has always been associated with a
mistress or a lover, something to go out to eat, in more way than one.

Pizza is a very traditional dish, taken very seriously in Italy, and
making it in a non-traditional way renders it not a pizza. Here is how
traditional pizza is supposed to be made - it is all but impossible to
reproduce this at home, lacking a commercial-grade wood-fired oven.
<http://www.pizzanapoletana.org/images/file/disciplinare_stg_eng.pdf>.

Victor