In 1889, Raffaele Espositio of Naples, Italy baked a special dish for the visit of Italian King Umberto. He named it Pizza Margherita in honor of the queen. The Human Genome Project still has a long way to go. The knowledge gained has the potential to transform medicine. Food is as important to living as base pairs are to the so-called Book of Life .
Pizza is now as American as apple pie.
Patti Landers is a registered dietitian on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.