A Great Summer Food

There are foods that are associated with specifichistorians agree that Italians have more than likely been
seasons-foods and drinks too that we reach foreating the food since the Stone Age, perhaps as far
traditionally when the weather turns warmer or colderback as the 6th century BC where soldiers baked a
by turn. What would the winter be without a nice bowlkind of flat bread and covered it afterward with
of steaming oatmeal to start the day? And how muchcheese. The word itself has some interesting historical
nicer is it to look out the window at a snowstormconnotations.
when you've got a nice hot cup of hot chocolate in'Pizza' is obviously Italian, but not many people know
your hands?that the word means 'a point' and the earliest forms of
Then there are the old standbys for the summerthis popular food were baked like a lot of other things
months as well. What better way to cool off in thebeneath the stones of a fire. At first, this early form of
middle of a heat wave than with a cool Popsicle?the modern food that has been popularized as
Who hasn't enjoyed a baseball game while munchingMississauga pizza was used as a kind of plate to sop
on a hot dog? It seems there are foods and drinks forup the excess gravy that was left over from other
every season and most of them really add to ourmeals. However, like all great ideas, it wasn't long
enjoyment of any particular time of year.before pizza took off in its own right.
One of the all-time favorite summer foods is one thatIt seems that another great culture, The Greeks,
we've been enjoying in North America for one hundredhelped bring what we now know as the modern day
years. Ever since Gennaro Lombardi opened the firstpizza along. Because their version of the flat bread
pizza place in New York in 1905, we've been enjoyingwas convenient for the working man and his family at
the tasty treat that's got a very interesting history. Ofthe time, they decided that the flat round bread they
course it might be no surprise that pizza's origins arewere using for meals should have some kind of
claimed by the Italians, and as you munch a piece oftopping, and in this way the predecessor of the
Toronto pizza in the middle of little Italy, you might thinkmodern pizza pie was born.
that the food's history only goes back to turn of theIt wasn't until years later that the modern world caught
century Europe, but pizza has an even bigger past.up to this popular summer food and in 1957 frozen
Although modern people munching Hamilton pizzapizzas were introduced and soon became the most
might not have considered it on a hot July day, mostpopular food that you could get from the freezer.