Inventing the pizzeria : a history of pizza making in Naples /
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| Language: | English Italian |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Author's Preface; 1 The origins of pizza and the pizzeria; Why Naples?; "Pizza": The origins and meanings of the word; The history of pizza through dictionaries and written accounts; After the unification of Italy; 2 Censuses and statistics: Pizzaioli in their social context; The first documents; Pizzerias in Naples in 1807; The Expansion of the 1800s; Pizzaioli in statistics and censuses; The social status of the pizzaiolo
- Pizza hawkers and "oggi a otto"Pizzaiole; 3 Licenses and the law; Ordinances and police regulations; Skirmishes between shopkeepers and police; Licenses, inspections, and rules; 4 Inside the pizzeria and behind the counter; Pizzaioli between cops and owners; Real estate income; Fires; Descriptions of pizzerias; Pizzerias and trattorias; Restaurateurs and trattorias; Water and pizzas: Wells and aqueducts; 5 Uncertainty and continuity in hard times; Structural difficulties; Heredity of the profession and intrafamily continuity; Individual persistence; Giving up
- 6 The distribution of pizzerias across the cityPolitical and urban shake-ups; The Bourbon period; After unification; Everyday work in the pizzeria; 7 Historic pizzerias; The oldest pizzerias; Port'Alba and Largo della Carità ; Sant'Anna di Palazzo; Other nineteenth-century pizzerias; 8 A family affair; Problems with documentation; The Lombardis: A voyage between Naples and New York; The mystery of the Pace family: 1800s or 1900s?; The saga of the Mattozzis; Conclusion: Yesterday's pizza, today's pizza; From antiquity to the eighteenth century; Genuine Neapolitan pizza
- Ingredients and preparationThe twentieth century in Naples ... ; ... and beyond; Sources-Neapolitan pizzerias in the 1800s (bourbon period); Sources-Neapolitan pizzerias from 1860 to 1901; Sources-Neapolitan pizzerias cited in commercial guides from 1880, 1881, 1886, 1888, and 1900; Notes; Bibliography; Index
