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fandomhigh2023-05-08 06:35 am
carbsliftthespirit) wrote in fandomhigh2023-05-08 06:35 am
Pizza!, Monday, First Period
Raiden was teaching? Raiden was teaching! He was pretty nervous about it, because, come on, how was he gonna teach anything, but the subject was his favorite subject and area of expertise, so...how bad could it be?
"Good morning, everyone!" he said cheerfully, and loudly, because...Raiden. "I'm Raiden, and you're here to learn about God's most perfect food, pizza! It's a little early for lunch, so I brought breakfast for everyone, and today I thought we'd start with the beginnings of pizza. Well, not the very beginnings, for that you'd have to go back to the very first time some genius put stuff on top of a flatbread, but the first recorded pizza, which looked very unlike what we think of as pizza today.
"Bartolomeo Scappi was a chef in the papal court during the Renaissance, and in 1570 he published a cookbook, his Opera dell'arte del cucinare, which included not one, not two, but six pizza recipes," which Raiden was now handing out to the workshop. "Now, you'll notice that these don't really look like what we think of as pizza. They're not topped with mozzarella--only two of them even have cheese in them at all. There's no tomato sauce, because tomatoes are a New World food and Europe hadn't really figured out what to do with them yet. There are a lot of spices, and sugar, because that was the flavor profile of the day, right? 'Look at me, I'm rich, I can afford cinnamon.' But this was pizza, as the Italians of the Renaissance thought of it.
"So we're not gonna try making this today, because...it's not really that much like modern pizza, but we are going to try it, because I also made pizza sfogliata--that's the pizza sfogliata a un’altro modo in your handout. Keep an open mind, because it may not seem like pizza to you, but it is delicious. I mean, it's full of butter. How can it go wrong?
After he'd given them enough time to try the pizza sfogliata, he asked nervously, "So? What do you think? Can you see how this eventually became what we think of today as pizza?"
"Good morning, everyone!" he said cheerfully, and loudly, because...Raiden. "I'm Raiden, and you're here to learn about God's most perfect food, pizza! It's a little early for lunch, so I brought breakfast for everyone, and today I thought we'd start with the beginnings of pizza. Well, not the very beginnings, for that you'd have to go back to the very first time some genius put stuff on top of a flatbread, but the first recorded pizza, which looked very unlike what we think of as pizza today.
"Bartolomeo Scappi was a chef in the papal court during the Renaissance, and in 1570 he published a cookbook, his Opera dell'arte del cucinare, which included not one, not two, but six pizza recipes," which Raiden was now handing out to the workshop. "Now, you'll notice that these don't really look like what we think of as pizza. They're not topped with mozzarella--only two of them even have cheese in them at all. There's no tomato sauce, because tomatoes are a New World food and Europe hadn't really figured out what to do with them yet. There are a lot of spices, and sugar, because that was the flavor profile of the day, right? 'Look at me, I'm rich, I can afford cinnamon.' But this was pizza, as the Italians of the Renaissance thought of it.
"So we're not gonna try making this today, because...it's not really that much like modern pizza, but we are going to try it, because I also made pizza sfogliata--that's the pizza sfogliata a un’altro modo in your handout. Keep an open mind, because it may not seem like pizza to you, but it is delicious. I mean, it's full of butter. How can it go wrong?
After he'd given them enough time to try the pizza sfogliata, he asked nervously, "So? What do you think? Can you see how this eventually became what we think of today as pizza?"
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"Well," he had to comment, "that certainly is a lot of butter."
Which wasn't to say that he wasn't appreciating another bite, and musing about the riots that would have occurred if he brought something like this to camp claiming it was pizza.
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Both the pizzas were pretty awesome, actually, which was all that TJ had wanted from this class, so she was good!
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It was science.
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He took a couple of tentative bites of the pizza, he didn’t finish his slice but it actually was rather nice.
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Talk to Raiden
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