Who Wants a Pizza, Just Like the Romans Ate?
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A pizzeria in Budapest is offering diners a taste of history by recreating what a Roman-era “pizza” might have looked like — long before tomatoes, mozzarella, or even the term itself existed in Europe.
At Neverland Pizzeria, founder Josep Zara and his team developed a limited-edition flatbread using only ingredients known in ancient Rome. The idea began with a simple question: what would something like pizza have tasted like two thousand years ago?
While Romans didn’t eat pizza in the modern sense — tomatoes arrived from the Americas centuries later, and mozzarella only appeared much later in Italy — they did consume baked flatbreads topped with herbs, cheeses, and sauces. These were commonly sold in Roman snack bars known as thermopolia and are considered early ancestors of pizza.
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