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The Margherita may not be the "best" pizza, but it was enormously influential in the development of pizza in general.
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Ingredients for a Margherita pizza: Red tomatoes, white mozzarella, and green basil. The Italian Queen Margherita purportedly sampled this type of flatbread on a visit to Naples in 1889. She decided it was her favorite, according to the legend - which may be, though, only a legend.
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Regardless, the Margherita helped create the modern-day pizza, with tomatoes and mozzarella becoming staple ingredients in its wake.
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The Margherita pizza was named one of the most influential pizzas of all time by TIME Magazine in 2014.
I'd never thought about pizza from the perspective of impact before... ;-)
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