How to Cook the ORIGINAL Pizza Margherita from 1889 | Ancient Recipes with Sohla

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Published 2023-12-02
Sohla El-Waylly fires up the pizza oven to recreate the original pizza cooked in Naples in the 1800s. Learn the surprising history behind this classic pie, in this episode of Ancient Recipes with Sohla. See more in Season 3, Episode 7, "How to Cook the ORIGINAL Pizza Margherita from 1889."

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Ancient Recipes with Sohla takes the food you know and love and traces it back to its origins. In each episode, Sohla El-Waylly details the surprising history of some of our favorite dishes as she attempts to recreate the original version using historical cooking techniques and ingredients. Along the way, Sohla highlights the differences between the ancient recipe and how we would prepare the modern version today.
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All Comments (21)
  • @kklock9057
    Love this show! I think you should do the origin story of Moroccan tagine, including the beautiful tagine cookware used to make the dish. Dates, olives, apricots, cured lemons, fresh herbs, lamb, chicken, goat - so many delicious variations.
  • @xingcat
    This was fun. I like the pizza history lesson and the historian saying, "Bring it," to comment criticism.
  • @lovetolose
    I would love to see the origins of flan. My family is from Dominican Republic and I know that there are very many different types of flan but because when Christopher Columbus discovered America I want to know what he would have eaten on the island of Espanola. There are two things that I want to know flan and what Christopher Columbus would’ve eaten after landingon Española
  • The garlic, lardo and salt is reminiscent of an appetizer you can get in many Russian & Ukranian restaurants here and overseas. It's cured pork fat, they call it Salo, a thin slice of raw garlic on squares of untoasted bread. Fabulous with an ice cold vodka!
  • @algini12
    4:57 Activate tall Sohla? Using the bionic sound effect from the 1970's Six million dollar man TV series?...."She can rebuild it. She has the technology. She can make the worlds first Bionic pizza. She can make it better than it was..Stronger, FASTER!"... *Key the show's theme music*...It cracked me up! 🤣
  • Pizza is the pie that poor people in Naples were making for their living. Pizza is one of my favorite foods because of its flavor and texture and the garlic tomato onions and basil and oregano’s flavor pops in the taste Bud with AMORE! LOVE ! That fresh pizza! MY FAVORITE PIZZA IS THE ONE WITH GARLIC ONIONS TOMATOES BASIL AND OREGANO 🌿 AND A THIN CRUST WITH A BLANKET OF MOZZARELLA CHEESE COOKED WELL DONE PERFECTLY HOT SERVED UP WITH FRUIT JUICE 🥤
  • @melchan1275
    I'm literally only subscribed to watch this series! Love Sohla and this content
  • @blutwilight
    Can you do an episode on the history of culinary terms?! Just like you were wondering about why it’s called a shaggy dough.
  • @eflarsen
    tall sohla the tall chef! it's my favorite recurring bit. i've also been to the restaurant that Margherita went to for pizza tasting and their pizza margherita is so good.
  • @lauree8165
    love you and the way you try to educate us....keep the experts!
  • @stinooke
    What's truly ironic (and not really mentioned in the video) is that the Margharita is most probably a product of New York. The queen's travel records show that the 1889 story never happened. As mentioned, until the 1900s neapolitan pizza did not resemble anything we recognize as pizza today. By this time, modern pizza was already being made by Italian immigrants in the US, which in turn influenced pizza making in Naples. Not just because Italians themselves loved it so much, but also to cater to tourists who were expecting to have pizza available to them in Italy.
  • You know you've made it when you have your own chewing/tasting music. It will be in my head when I next eat lunch!
  • @Eva-sm9pf
    Sohla is the only reason I'm subscribed to this channel tbh (no shade she's just goated)
  • @ashleymaddox3967
    I would love to learn the history of the Hangi, a traditional Maori meal cooked in the ground, and if/how it is related to similar meals traditional to indigenous populations elsewhere in the world with Polynesian origins.
  • @buckybarnes3803
    I like the little plates because my problem was transferring the uncooked Pizza onto the pizza stone without messing it up
  • @betsylindsay8480
    Enjoy everything you do! Food and history combo is such a treat. “Start Here” arrived on my doorstep today…..Christmas present to myself. It’s hefty, chock full of your fabulous recipes, and imbued with your essence.
  • @syntacticalcrab
    "Poor working people needed something cheap and easy to eat and the upper class thought it was disgusting" good to see nothing has changed 😂