Pizza’s cooking class on Saturday, May 11th

Pizza’s cooking class on Saturday, May 11th

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 –