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#159824 05/19/06 11:05 AM
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Higgley piggley
James William Buffett, well-
Known for his songs and his
Writing career

Celebrates lesiure most
Margaritaceously:
Sea, sun and cheeseburgers
Served with a beer

#159825 05/19/06 11:40 AM
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Yay! *applause*

#159826 05/19/06 11:41 AM
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>Who this woman was isn't certain.

surely it was la jeune fille a la perle.

#159827 05/19/06 02:50 PM
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surely it was la jeune fille a la perle.

#159828 05/21/06 12:11 AM
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No tequila in Bella Napoli, but the original Pizza, still the most popular today, is the Pizza Margherita . . .On the 11th June 1889, the Ristorante Brandi is generally credited with producing the simple wood oven baked thin pasta circle with crushed fresh tomatoes,fresh mozarella, a drizzle of olive oil and a nice basil leaf in the middle. It was named for Queen Margherita . . . no twist of lime!

#159829 05/21/06 04:09 PM
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Re: but the original Pizza, still the most popular today, is the Pizza Margherita

what about pizza rustica? pizza is a term for pie, and pizza rustica is old dish. now served at easter, its most likely a pre-christian spring dish--made with grain, and fresh green herbs (baked in a yeasted 'pie' crust--

pizza rustica, is of course 'country cooking'.

'modern' pizza might be more like the pizza marghertia, but this is hardly the 'origianl pizza'

#159830 05/21/06 04:37 PM
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Etymologies of pizza differ from scholar to scholar. I know of two: (a) the traditonal one from Greek pitta 'cake, tart'; and, the newish one from Germanic bizzo 'bite, piece' (cf. German biss).


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