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Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures - Pizza In The United States Is What Convinced The World That Pizza Was A Great Thing | #343

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Italy and Tomatoes

Tomatoes originally south american riht, absolutely. They don't come to the new world until the third columbus expedition in 14 93. Ironically, the last part of europe to accept the tomato was italy. America loves deep fried food. We love pitsa. So surely we have fried bitsa here? There's maybe a couple of places in the us that make it, but it's a weird and itch little thing. And if pita had not left naples with all these imigrants, it probably would be a nich food product that you only find in one city, in naples.

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