Zesty Pizza

Vegan pizza (no meat, no cheese) might seem to many like another strange and unwelcome perversion of a classic favorite food. But the reality is actually the opposite. The original pizza, the one upon which all other pizzas are based, originated in Naples in Southern Italy and is known as the Marinara pizza. That original, first pizza was actually made without cheese. It is not a vegan pizza that is the "perversion". Vegan pizza is actually original! The first pizza was made in Naples and is called a Neapolitan Pizza. There are two types of Neapolitan pizzas now officially sanctioned by the European Union (yes, it's that official!). The more familiar Margherita was first made for Queen Margherita of Savoy in 1889, to represent the three-colored Italian flag, and therefore included mozzarella cheese. But the original one, the purest and the best according to many pizza enthusiasts, is the Marinara: crushed tomato sauce, oregano, sliced garlic, and olive oil,