Shish k"ofte

[Lynne Murphy]

Rudy Troike wondered:
>         I wonder, from the testimony of various contributors, how recent
> gyros may be in Greece itself. I have long wondered whether pizza, like
> fortune cookies, might be an American invention. On my first visit to
> southern Italy in 1962, I couldn't find it, and on a later visit to
> northern Italy in 1973, the only place I found pizza was at a tourist
> restaurant, where it was cooked with a very thick, hard crust, and had a
> raw egg added on top after cooking.

When I was a kid, I learned that pizza (as we know it) was invented in
Connecticut.  I have no idea about any of the details, but that was the
story that was passed around my schoolyard.

Lynne