Professor Dave, I’m native Italian, and amazingly impressed with both your research work and pronunciation of all Italian words. Bravo.

@vedantbhard

2 жыл бұрын

Professor Dave is actually American-Italian haha

@DryPaperHammerBro

2 жыл бұрын

@@vedantbhard Oh, really?

@martinmaxwell3508

2 жыл бұрын

@@DryPaperHammerBro yep, he said that on one of his videos, i forgot which ones though lol

@DryPaperHammerBro

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinmaxwell3508 Makes sense why the pronunciations were perfect

@MaryAnnNytowl

2 жыл бұрын

@@DryPaperHammerBro in his biographical information out there in the interwebz, it's mentioned several times in various places!

I absolutely love the diversity of the content on this channel. There’s history, economics, chemistry, biology, and even conspiracy theory debunking. Hope the future is great for you.

Finally, explaining something important!

@Gfish17

2 жыл бұрын

That's what he always does.

That intro never fails to get me excited about random shit i suddenly care about

@david2869

2 жыл бұрын

Try playing the intro and outro songs at x1.5 speed, they sound better!

@cousinparty7266

2 жыл бұрын

@@david2869 oh, you weren't lying!

Professor Dave, you've waited a while to put this one out there, haven't you. Haven't seen that long hair for some time in the outro! Love your Italian pronunciations and, more importantly, you couldn't have applied it to a better topic: PIZZA! Yum! Nicely done.

Man, I just had dinner before watching this. Now I want a pizza

@niloi._.da_boi

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@MrMr00119922

2 жыл бұрын

I'm eating dinner now and wishing it was an authentic Italian pizza

Mark Sargent is in the next room waving a book called "Zetetic Pizza" and yelling, "Pizza is spherical, not flat, you morons!". Seriously though, great video. For some reason I'm hungry now!

Professor Dave, can we have more videos themed as the history of food? This was a treat to watch.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Pasta is coming soon!

@fatman957

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Did you know that Pepe's in New Haven CT. Is still open till this day?

@ProfessorDaveExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I ate there once! I grew up in CT.

@fatman957

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Me too, New Haven to be exact. I've never been able to find pizza as good as Pepe's. The latest owner passed away recently.

I'll send this to my friends. This is one of the ways how they'll get into history. Food history

You got me missing Napoli! I love the various Italian pizzas. Napoli was my second home in the US Navy. Napoli was our home port during Mediterranean cruises. From Napoli I visited Roma, Triste, Capri, Sardinia, and of course Pompei. I love the Italian Restaurants where there is no hurry. Dentice with caprese salad. Calamari with an Arugula pecorino pine nut, pear salad and a Coke with a lemon in it. Wish I was there!

Man a Italian is explaining pizza so you know it's true.

My last duty station before retiring from the US Air Force was at Aviano Airbase, just north of Venice. A local Italian restaurant that was a favorite of the Americans served a cheese pizza that was topped with French fries. It was very popular with children.

@avvocato5543

Ай бұрын

They also have a pizza with hot dogs mixed in with the fries. Wurstel.

You have earned the respect and admiration of all of us italians, congratulations

As a Catalan, I didn't expect you to mention us or coca. I found it odd that you referred to us in the past tense, though... we're still very much around and we still eat all sorts of coca 😅 I'd also like to point out that Etruscan and Catalan peoples are separated by a 1500+ year gap. If someone has to get credit for inventing the precursor of pizza, it's definitely the ancient Greeks, Persians, Etruscans, Romans, etc. My medieval Catalan ancestors probably created the coca concept based on similar medieval pastries circulating around the Mediterranean at the time. Anyway, you managed to make me wish I was in Italy right now, eating some of those awesome pizzas in the video 😉

The best pizza I ever had was actually in Bavaria. Visiting with friends of my mom’s from her teenage days, they took us out for pizza. We were in for a shock. The restaurant was owned and operated by an Italian transplant and we had real Italian pizza, what we in the U.S. would call personal, but it blew any American pizza I’ve had out of the pizzeria. I live near Philly but have travelled and had many different ‘AAmerican’ styles, but authentic Italian is better by far.

You're laughing. Professor Dave is gradually losing his mind about having to explain pizza and you're laughing.

What a competent history video!! You even pronounced correctly all the Italian words! Unlike many other channels! 10/10

I lost 60 lbs in 2 years eating pizza 3 times a week. If you count your calories honestly and use healthy ingredients pizza is great.

@farinap2000

2 жыл бұрын

I believe you! Pizza in Italy has never been considered "junk food"... :)

@stupidas9466

2 жыл бұрын

We all would lose weight if we ate 3 times a week, regardless of what it was.

@NoName-to5xl

2 жыл бұрын

@@stupidas9466 no I eat every day. 3 days I put in pizza. I just make sure I keep my 1800cal /day. just to prove, if you moderate you calories pizza is possible, it's actually great for energy, especially if you use home-made ingredients , not some greasy chain pizza.

"History of Pizza" should be a mandatory topic in whatever class it could fit in- (Jk) Also yeah, Pompeii's ruins even have preserved bread-

@cousinparty7266

2 жыл бұрын

No, it's not a joke, the history of pizza is important! I swear there was this ignorant American I knew that said "Pizza is not international, it's in the US ONLY." No wonder why there are flat earthers...

@UlmerCubingandMore

2 жыл бұрын

@@cousinparty7266 wait those people exist? Honestly never knew but damn just more American Egoism

7:13 In Italy you can ask for a "pizza al piatto" and it is a full pizza like the one in the image, or you can ask for some spliced pizza, like in America, at restaurants they give you the full pizza, but at the pizzeria you can choose. Plus fact: every restaurant that serves pizza has some special pizza that is different from one another, so if you plan to visit Italy, try different places!

The history we didn't know we needed! Thanks Dave 👍

0:23 im an American of mostly German descent and i took that incredibly personally

Wonderful video! In Catalan language, when you are really tired, you say you are "fet una coca" (you feel as flat as a coca). The closer version of the Catalan coca to the Italian pizza is the "coca de recapte". I've just had dinner, but I'm hungry again. Bravissimo, keep up the good work!

Pizza really is peak human experience. It's right up there with fellatio, freedom, snuggles from puppies and/or kittens, naps, that spine tingly feeling from just the right note in music, or a really magnificent poo. Someone once mentioned the phrase "bad pizza" around me and I had to correct them. It's similar to the idea of "bad sex," even though it may be not be the best sex or best pizza you've ever had at least you were having sex or enjoying pizza, thus making all consensual and willing acts of sexual relations or pizza consumption preferable than not having either. One's life is quite honestly redefined by eating every style and manner of pizza from the North of Italy all the way to South. In every city and town you'll find display cases with unique takes that are really amazing and highlight the best of the immediately available ingredients from directly outside the city or a small farm a stone's throw away. I had honestly never really tasted what fresh food really was until my 1st trip to Italy. I really believe everyone should go to Italy and tour the entirety of the country, while sampling the pizza along the way. This may come as a surprise, but there are some other cool things to see and do in Italy while you are there to enjoy the pizza.

@owenoulton9312

2 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. Once in 1986, a couple of us were working an all-nighter and there was only one pizzeria open for delivery at 3:00 AM. We ordered a large pie and it was truly execrable. Let's face it - two hungry guys in the middle of the night could not choke this crap down. We wound up going to a nearby all-night convenience store and got microwave hot dogs, that miserable excuse for pizza was so bad. So yes, as unbelievable as it sounds, there *_IS_* such a thing as an objectively bad pizza.

@Shaker626

Жыл бұрын

In this case bad pizza would have the bad sex equivalent be a 400 lb hairy unwashed woman sitting on your face

@jeremysmith4620

Жыл бұрын

@@Shaker626 Still not seeing a problem there. Throw a little parm and red pepper on the pie, throw a little shave and bath on the woman.

@Shaker626

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremysmith4620 Except the woman will refuse to do either in this case. You just have to go with the flow. Maybe she'll also do some scat play with you, but hey no bad sex, right?

@jeremysmith4620

Жыл бұрын

@@Shaker626 It all washes off in the shower baby. Just put down a blue tarp, oil her down, and take a long drive down the Hersey highway to scat city. It's like getting anchovies, IDK why anyone would want it, but so many people do.

Nice video! Being Italo-american I can appreciate it even more! :D The kind of pizzas you mentioned are found pretty much everywhere, but you can also find loads more. Almost every pizzeria has its special toppings also to be competitive, and you can always find a good variety.

Ho davvero apprezzato molto questo racconto sulla storia della pizza che è un piatto tipico italiano, e ne sono orgoglioso. L'esperienza di cui parli, seduti in una pizzeria italiana in una delle nostre piazze, è davvero qualcosa che fa star bene e in pace con il mondo. Grazie davvero!

"Flatbread" is not pizza any more than milk is a milkshake. The Margherita pizza is the first product resembling modern day pizza (as well as one of the tastiest). I agree with you from that point, though. The American and Italian styles are considerably different today, although both can be incredibly delicious in their own right. There are a few places in the general Boston area that make pretty good "old world" style Italian pizza.

It is quite intertaning to watch Pizza develop over the years and a huge respect to the archives and historions that allowed us to review the history on one of humanity's favorite foods.

Hands down: the best video on this channel. ✌️🍕

I see pizza, I click.

@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices

2 жыл бұрын

Are you VEGAN? 🌱

Wow...I m hungry! A change of pace from your great informative math and science videos....thanx Prof Dave!

Can you do more videos on food history? This was amazing

Great, now I want pizza lol

I need to have all of these!

Now i yave a pizza craving and it's 12 am

I miss thin Roman pizza, the funghi ones were always so amazing... i gotta go back to Italy

The thumbnail made my mouth water

I came here to learn calculus. But I stay for the pizza.

Lol, tonight I'm gonna eat a diavola, cheers from Italy.

Now this is a content type that I can absolutely get behind!

This video was Delicious ! You covered more Italian pizza verities than I believed existed.

You really nailed the issue with personal size pizzas.

0:33 I thought those jalepenos were green olives for a second and I actually started salivating.

You just made me want to go Italy even more now. Thanks. lol But seriously very interesting video.

I used to live in Italy and I can agree sitting down at a true Italian restaurant with a Margherita pizza is astounding. Though I’m surprised you didn’t mention pizza americano, though I’m sure it’s made more as a joke than a real Italian dish; it’s a standard pizza but with cut up hot dogs and French fries as the toppings

@Professor Dave Explains, i was wondering with all the different types of pizzas out there, may i ask what is your favourite Pizza?

i fucking love this channel so much! i can learn about biochemistry and then relax with some pizza history! DAVE! I LOVE YOU!

Wow I love when Pepe's pizza is mentioned in videos and on tv. I grew up on that and Everytime I go home I have to go there.

I SO love this history thanks a whole lot man! Yumi yumi yum!

Just one correction: Mozzarella di bufala, as it is a feminine. Bufalo is the masculine and drawing milk from them presents... challenges.

Holy shizz dude, your content is so diverse. I subbed for kind-of-daily trivias

Excellent vid . . . I am half Italian and congratulte you on your presentation and Italian pronunciation.

Thanks! I'm so ready for my test tomorrow.

Pizza in some areas of northern itaily such as trentino alto adige is far worse than southern or central regions. I unfortunately had some of the worst pizza of my life at a restaurant in a small town near bolzano. Research the cuisine of each region before visiting!

Great stuff as usual, Dave! Love your pronunciation, but now I suddenly find myself very hungry, with no pizza nearby :/

The most important history lesson

Very cool! Thanks!

There is a few inaccurate things, Tomato's where never brought from Peru or by Christopher Columbus which is so inaccurate as Columbus never landed on the mainland, they where brought from Mexico hence the name Tomato coming from the word Xitomatl which comes from the Aztec language not Incans, also the Incans never used the Tomatoes in dishes only the Natives from Mexico did. Tomatoes didn't become popular in Italy until the 1800's, prior to that it was thought to sicken people and was poisonous. When Spain occupied southern Italy (Sicily) in the 1700's it is believed they introduced cooking with tomato in dishes but was a very regional thing and in in Italy it was called Salsa. The first document I have read was in the 1830's with a man putting Tomato's on his pizza also the famous Naples story of the dude that invented the margarita pizza in 1889 but who knows if it's true.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Tomatoes did indeed originate from the Andes area. And I did not say Columbus brought them, I said they came to Italy after Columbus came to the new world. I specifically talked about Spaniards bringing back the tomatoes. Everything else you are saying is specifically mentioned in this video. Please listen more carefully.

@alexcontreras6103

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Your right I miss heard on the Columbus part. You may be confuse the ancestors and the "wild" lineage does trace back to South America but I'm referring to the Cultivated 🍅 and the genetic bottleneck that was introduced in Europe comes from Mexico not Peru, there was a genetic study done in England to confirm this. Also Sahagun showed the diversity of tomatoes he saw in the Aztec Market in Mexico City and like I mentioned if it was from Peru it would have had a Quechua name to it like the Potato does at least in Spanish, but it does not. Just stating the facts man, as so many articles and website state the same inaccuracies

@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDaveExplains Are you VEGAN? 🌱

@paulinalaratta7799

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, Mr. Dave did get that piece wrong with his graphics on it being introduced from Peru when it seems it was really was introduced from Mexico. Wikipedia and also have read some studies on its genetic lineage that seem to agree with you. Many ill-informed websites or articles for some careless reason say it was Peru.

@alg7096

2 жыл бұрын

Of ffs how bout we just say the damn 🍅 came from somewhere south of the US??? Everybody wants credit for the 🍅!!!!! 😂

Was already gonna have a pizza tonight...this is just making it that much better

absolutely very good sir

Just a few days ago I saw a video of a man explaining that pizza as we know it today, among many other dishes from italian cuisine, are modern inventions and many of them influenced by italian americans. All of this was based on a publication made by an Italian professor who researched all of this.

This is a video I can get behind!

I never heard that pizza was an American invention, Though I was told that the pizza we eat here is completely different but it's actually quite similar if you ignore fast food restaurants like pizza hut.

What a ripper!!!!!

This comes shortly after a great Italian-run pizza place in my area closed. They were pretty adventurous, culinarily, and had cool Saturday late night menus that completely changed every week. (they weren't limited to pizza, and in fact they didn't start out as a pizza place) They had rules of Neopolitan pizza hanging above the menu. Interesting to see speck e mascarpone, as they had a speck & mozz. RIP Bread & Circus Provisions.

I was hoping you'd touch on the biggest thing in Italian pizza i.e. the two types of usages of doughs: Napolitan vs Roman I don't expect pinsa to be touched upon (that's a whole nother TYPE of dough), but these two are so vastly different it's like eating two different dishes

Such a random video but a very fun video none the less

Do more of this

Wow, didn't knew Greece made garlic bread.

Blessed video

🍕

Oh, you've changed your intro just to talk about pizza that's pretty damn cool. Also you're pronunciation of the words is just incredible.

I'm watching a history lesson pizza at 10 am on Sunday morning. Life's good.

Now you have done it. I have o go to my local Italian restaurant and have to order pizza. Presenting their menu in the best possible pictures with correct pronunciation. Unbelievable. (You should sell this as a pizza ad). BTW: Who the heck clicks on dislike for his video?

@stupidas9466

2 жыл бұрын

Dislikes are from Japanese, Chinese, and Indian restauranteurs.

Yes

Respect for the pronunciation!

Tomato sauce, mozzarella, gorgonzola and walnuts. My local restaurant calls it a Saporita, which I believe roughly translates to "Tasty" and which I can confirm 100%.

Everyone loves pizza, but flat earthers think we live on it LMAO

You teach this a lot better than my teacher!

Hey, where is my Pizza Calzone? Thanks for the great video and that you made me hungry. Auguro buon appetito:)

Funny and interesting, thank you

Enjoyed the video, but felt that you missed including arugula/rocket as a commonplace topping; most notably for the calabrese

nice

I like that way prof pronounce the cheeses and pizza

I can’t imagine life without pizza. My favourite food 💚🤍❤

bravo

I am glad I never even heard of the pizza with mascarpone, well up until today. Still my faith in humanity decreses everyday.

Questo video era...... inaspettato. Molto inaspettato, ma comunque excellente e piacevole.

Giada De Laurentis would be very proud of your pronunciations

Are downloads available?

This is a nice reminder that cultures can be so different

I love pizza with just , sweet tomato sauce, mozzarella and basil, absolutely delicious.

I've gone from flat earthers to flat breads on the same channel. Varied content 👍

The 2 euro pizza from the lil pizza stands on the streets in Italy... are the best.

3:15 in the middle easten/arabic colture the pitah is a traditional flat bread

I've sat outside in the Sicilian town of Erice eating a Quattro Formaggi pizza. It truly was a good day.

@ProfessorDaveExplains

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh I've been there! Way up in the hills. So neat.

It would be interesting to know if the introduction of the tomato to Italian mariners had a declining effect on scurvy

Professore Davide! 🤌

I am sad to say you missed my fav - POTATO + BASIL + Olive Oil pizza - an ITALIAN CLASSIC - if ever there was one

Excellent 😅