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History of pizza, slice by slice

By Thomas Verschelde | March 21, 2011

Pizza, a staple of college students everywhere, was born in ancient Greece. But the pizza people know and love today was not introduced until 1889 in Italy when cheese was added to the flattened bread, according to recipepizza.com. For the longest time...