Restaurants are plenty in Milano and choices are overwhelming.
Of course there are the Italians offering food from all the different regions
the country knows. The different pizza restaurants are one of them.
There are some stories about the origin of the pizza
circling around. I think the most famous is the one of Margeritha the Savoy. The
favorite pizza of this wealthy Italian woman is now known as the most simple
version: pizza Margeritha. The dough is just covered with tomato sauce, mozzarella
and basil leaves.
Pizza used to be the food for the poor. Although it is still
a cheap way to fill up, it is now eaten by many; no matter
what age, what background and what income. Therefore the pizza itself or the
place you can buy them could play an important role in creating a place where
these people meet and get in contact with each other.
Pizza is now available in many variations. Of course there
is the well-known Napolitano which
has a more soft dough. Then there is the Roman version with thin and crispy
pizza dough. In Milano we also have the pizza
al trancio, a so called pan pizza which is enough to fill six to eight
persons. Therefore you can buy it al
trancio which means no more than a
piece.
Influenced by immigrants the Milanese can also buy Turkish pizza. Striking enough they
couldn’t find an Italian name for this. The Turkish pizza is probably nothing different
than the Turkish pizza you can eat in Germany, the Netherlands or any other
European country. I don’t plan to try it any time soon.
Last but not least there is the pizza al asporto or the take away/home delivered pizza. Here you
miss the fun of eating out. You just order it at whatever place you like
(atmosphere doesn’t count here) and you can eat it wherever you like. Probably
this is your home, but it could also be the office, at school or – when you’re lucky
– in the park during sunset.
I guess you have to choose what you like most.
