A LEZIONE DI PIZZA

A LEZIONE DI PIZZA

Pizza’s cooking classes on Lake Maggiore

According to popular tradition, in 1889, 28 years after the Unification of Italy, during a visit to Naples of Queen Margherita of Savoy, wife of King Umberto I, chef Raffaele Esposito of Pizzeria Brandi and his wife created  a pizza resembling the colors of the Italian flag, red (tomato), white (mozzarella) and green (basil). They named it after the Queen – Pizza Margherita –