[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by NoMo50

We were in Italy in 2022, and sampled pizzas in many areas...Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice, Bologna, Ravenna, etc. Each was different in its own way, but all were excellent. I might even go so far as to say every one of them was better than any pizza we've had in the USA. What really surprised me, though, was how inexpensive pizza was in Italy. A favorite memory was a sidewalk cafe in Venice, off the beaten path. A pizza and a bottle of Sangiovese for 18 Euros. How do you beat that?

We are all different. After trying pizza in a number of European shops have decided that pizza was invented in Italy but perfected in US in mostly mom and dad neighborhood shops.