white pizza; clam hash

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Feb 9 16:12:53 UTC 2003


At 12:15 PM +0100 2/9/03, Jan Ivarsson TransEdit wrote:
>The Italian white pizza, the "pizza bianca", is usually simply the
>pure pizza, without any sauce or hash. See e.g.
>
>http://website.lineone.net/~traditio/pizza.html
>"le pizze più famose di Napoli sono tre e sono quelle che si
>mangiano sin dall'inizio del 1800: la pizza alla mastunicola (che
>poi corrisponde più o meno all'odierna pizza bianca)..."
>
>This is made with only flour, onions, lard and salt, in a richer
>version with basilic and buffalo cheese.
>
>http://www.donnanews.it/atavola/details.php?ID=2260
>"Cronologicamente la pizza napoletana più antica è la mastunicola la
>cui nascita dovrebbe datare 1660, seguita dalla marinara, 1750 e
>dalla margherita, con la sua variante al basilico del 1871."
>
>To a "pizza bianca" one can add white sauces but obviously no tomatoes.
>
>Jan Ivarsson
>
Right; the "white" pizza is so defined by subtraction, not addition,
and in Ann Arbor Greek pizzerias it only denoted [- tomatoes].  One
version had feta cheese and Greek olives--not pizza (by East Coast
definitions) but not bad.

L



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