Il Carnevale di Scattocaso

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

The Crosta & Mollica Pizzeria is now open for business in Venice.

It appears that you probably could get a ‘Margherita’ in 1795, when the 'Rent in the Sky' appeared.   

[Digits]

Me tho me you could get pizza a lot longer ago than that!

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

[Doug ex-em4]

Me tho me you could get pizza a lot longer ago than that!

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

In Pompeii maybe. Took a looong time for news of it to get to Venice

Doug

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Me tho me you could get pizza a lot longer ago than that!

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

I imagine that flatbread has been around for a very long time. Maybe the Romans spread tomatoes on it and chucked a bit of cheese on?   

I think what we would consider a pizza dates from later times:

The history of pizza begins in antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced flatbreads with several toppings.

A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flatbread known to the Romans as panis focacius, to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, between the 16th and mid-18th century.

The word pizza was first documented in AD 997 in Gaeta and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy.

(Wiki)

The Crosta & Mollica Pizzeria is now open to the residents of Venice. Why not enjoy a couple of slices of Margherita, before nipping off to slice up an enemy during Carnevale?

[Doug ex-em4]

This is looking brillisimo now - it’s come on apace since we fought those pesky bandits (without too much success )

Doug

[Sunjester]

That is a great looking table, excellent!

[Cat]

Fantastico tavolo!
 
Does anyone have photos of crushed velvet for water please?  I've been pondering ways to do mountain streams as easy scatter terrain rather than purpose built into hills.
 
Fun ad links, never saw those over here.  As a proud New Englander who eats ice cream all year round, I never could bring myself to try Walls Ice Cream when I was over there [pig fat, shudder].

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Many thanks, Doug, Sunjester and Cat.

Cat, I think it was Bloggard who came up with the crushed velvet idea, on a LAF thread somewhere, but I can't remember where it is. You may have to contact directly, cheers.

[Bloggard]

t'wasn't my idea re: crushed velvet - can't remember where I saw it mentioned originally.

there are some photos on the first few pages of my thread in the frostgrave forum (fairly near the top of the board atm).


Layout's looking great your lordship.

[Cat]

Thanks Bloggard!

[Pattus Magnus]

Regarding pizza, if tomato is a mandatory ingredient, it won’t have been available in Europe before 1500 AD. Tomatoes were domesticated in the New World. Same with potatoes, so no fish and chip establishments in Britain when Caesar visited.

[FramFramson]

Regarding pizza, if tomato is a mandatory ingredient, it won’t have been available in Europe before 1500 AD. Tomatoes were domesticated in the New World. Same with potatoes, so no fish and chip establishments in Britain when Caesar visited.

A no for the Romans, but for 18th century Venice we're still good!

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

A no for the Romans, but for 18th century Venice we're still good!

 

...and a couple of tables to go outside the pizzeria.

[Sunjester]

Regarding pizza, if tomato is a mandatory ingredient, it won’t have been available in Europe before 1500 AD. Tomatoes were domesticated in the New World. Same with potatoes, so no fish and chip establishments in Britain when Caesar visited.

Tomato, although a common element of pizza toppings, is by no means a mandatory ingredient!

[Doug ex-em4]

Meanwhile, leaving aside the fascinating history of foodstuffs, let’s get back to the scenery . I love the tables - the gingham look is a great touch and the floral decorations finish off the look. More cracking work, m’lud…..

Doug