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Hungary eatery recreates ancient Roman pizza – without tomatoes or mozzarella

Hungary eatery recreates ancient Roman pizza – without tomatoes or mozzarella

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free A Budapest pizzeria is inviting diners on a culinary journey back two millennia, to a time before tomatoes, mozzarella, or even the word “pizza” were known in Europe. At Neverland Pizzeria in the heart of the Hungarian capital, founder Josep Zara and his team have crafted a limited-edition pie using only ingredients that would have been available in ancient Rome, long before the modern pizza came into existence. “Curiosity drove us to ask what pizza might have been like long ago,” Mr Zara said. “We went all the way back to the Roman Empire and wondered whether they even ate pizza at the time.” Strictly speaking, they did not. Tomatoes arrived in Europe centuries later from the Americas, and mozzarella was as yet unknown. Some histories suggest that the discovery of mozzarella led directly to the invention of pizza in Naples in the 1700s. However, …