Few dishes fire more passion than pizza.
I'm convinced that I could ask 100 readers for their favorite pizza places and hear 100 different answers. Everyone, it seems, has his or her favorite spot and favorite combination of toppings. Those same food experts trace the history of pizza all the way back to the Roman Empire. In those days, bakers were mixing wheat flour, water, honey and cheese into fashionable flat breads that they baked over open fires. The pizza we know here in the States was born in Naples and by the middle of the 18th century, street vendors in that Italian city were selling it to avid fans.