Pizza and the Italian Government

Italy announces Pizza-Making Guidelines ... standards for "real Neapolitan pizza."

... recognize only three types of real Neapolitan pizza: Marinara, with garlic and oregano; Margherita, with mozzarella cheese from the southern Apennines and basil; extra-Margherita, which requires fresh tomatoes, basil and buffalo mozzarella from Campania, the region that includes pizza's hometown, Naples.

The dough must be rolled out manually, and ... baked in wooden ovens that can reach the required temperature of 905 degrees Fahrenheit.

Restaurants that abide by those rules will get a label saying that their pizza is a Guaranteed Traditional Specialty.

The Neopolitan pizza appeas to have been the first to combine tomatoes and the pizza bread (around 1889, supposedly to honor Queen Margherita with a pizza topped with tomatoes, mozarella cheese, and fresh basil to represent the colors of the Italian flag: red, white, and green.)

On the side - tomatoes are not native to Europe and came from the Americas :)

EDIT: Italians were not the first to make pizza, they just appear to be the first to use tomatoes on pizza (which I'd call the modern pizza).

Curry?

We've been making a very good chicken-and-coconut milk green curry, but we'd like to broaden our horizons a bit. Can anybody point us to more good curry recipies? We like it hot.

Putting up the laundry has never been such fun

Stolen from tugrik, I present you with the Art of T-shirt Folding.

I'll try it tomorrow after doing the laundry.