Donald Martinich > wrote:

> Victor's version is a translation of the recipe from
> the DOC organization for Neapolitan pizza: Verace Pizza
> Napoletana Association. You can find it in more detail at:
> http://www.verapizzanapoletana.org/vpn/ricetta.htm The VPNA
> was founded in 1984 so this recipe is not necessarily that
> for the original from the 1880's. A perusal of recipes,
> including descriptions of pizzas encountered in Naples, show
> many variations featuring the same basic ingredients. Kinda
> makes you think of pastas "al Alfredo".

The Victor/DOC version may only date from 1984 but it seems
to me identical to the standard pizza I had when I lived in
Naples in the late 1960's.

At least some reports suggest pizza has not been made continuously,
at least in mass quantities, in Naples since the "early days"
of the 1880's. It seems highly likely that the demand for pizza
in Naples increased with the American occupation after 1945, and
that the now-standard Neapolitan pizza while rooted in tradition
developed into its current form sometime after that.

Steve