The "Aussie" was invented by the late Salvatore Della Bruna, the Picasso of Australia's pizza heritage who established this country's first pizza parlour, Toto's on Melbourne's Lygon Street.
The Aussie variety is a pizza that is usually topped with a base of barbecue sauce, mozzarella cheese, bits of chopped bacon, often ham, and a few eggs. The pie can sometimes be enriched by the addition of onions, garlic, mushrooms, or hot peppers.
That's surprising considering that pizza was only really introduced in Australia in the late-1940s, when Italians and Greeks migrated to Australia following the Second World War. Since then, our country's pizza market has evolved rapidly.
The Aussie pizza — its official name — is good for breakfast or lunch. The traditional Aussie pie features standard tomato sauce and mozzarella, but the toppings are morning favorites including bacon, ham, and egg. Barbecue sauce is also often used in place of tomato sauce in pizza shops in Australia.
Primarily regarded as the first pizza ever created, the tried-and-tested margherita pizza was created in 1899 and continues to dominate as Australia's most popular pizza takeaway choice.
The modern flatbread pizza was born in Naples, Italy, around the end of the 19th century.
Australia Officially Has The Best Pizza In The World — This Is What It Tastes Like. To become a world champion in pizza making, you have just one chance to get it right. One pizza, one panel of judges, plenty of brow-furrowing questions on how you made the thing.
Vegemite (/ˈvɛdʒimaɪt/ VEJ-i-myte) is a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1922.
There's a lot of uproar about it—traditionalists and purists hate it, while the rebellious (and evidently the entire populous of the Hawaiian islands) love it.
Marco Polo discovered cong you bing, a scallion pancake, when visiting the country of China. He developed an affinity for the dish during his trip and convinced bakers to re-create it for him upon his return to Italy. Over time, the bakers made adaptions to the recipe that eventually became pizza.
Ancient Origins
But modern pizza, the flatbreads with tomato sauce, cheese, and toppings, was born along the western coast of Italy, in the city of Naples. Naples too has a long history, dating back to 600 B.C. when the Greeks first settled it.
Born in 2001 from a dream to make gourmet pizzas, the first Crust Pizza store opened in Annandale, New South Wales.
As the name suggests, the Spicy Chinese Pizza is very spicy, and has everything that you will expect to see in a Chinese dish, from noodles and veggies to Schezuan and soya sauce, not to forget garlic.
To make mochi pizza, the dough is mixed with mochi; pounded glutinous rice, resulting in a chewy yet soft texture to the crust. This is a favorite in Japan, and many families recreate this dish at home. Mochi pizza is usually topped with ketchup instead of traditional tomato sauce, cheese, vegetables and/or sausage.
Roast lamb rules as Australia's national dish.
In a nationwide survey launched by Continental to find out which dish was considered by most residents as “Australia's National Dish”, roast lamb was number one. Other runners-up to the title of “National Dish of Australia”? Meat pies, barbecue prawns, and steak and veggies.
The nation's least favorite pizza topping is anchovies: 29% say it's their least favorite. You could say anchovies are polarizing but people lean hard to one pole: Only 1% name them as their favorite topping. Jalapeños (8%), pineapple (6%), eggplant (6%), broccoli (5%), and mushrooms (5%) follow — far behind.
The smelly, spiky Southeast Asian fruit is loathed by many for its unique odour, but its creamy pulp is fast becoming one of the most popular pizza toppings in Asian countries like China and Singapore. Complemented by butter and cheese, durian pizzas have a special mixed taste of savoury, sweetness and bitterness.
Known as the Aussie pizza, it was a creation of the Late Salvatore Bruna of Toto's Pizzeria. The Aussie pizza contains tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and the standard breakfast toppings, which vary from eggs and bacon and ham to red onions, peppers, mushrooms, and garlic.
The wood fire pizza is made in the traditional Neapolitan style, with ingredients including fior di latte, lemon ricotta, zucchini, lobster and black truffle. The pizza will sell for $100 and will be available at all 400 Gradi locations throughout Melbourne: Brunswick, Essendon, Crown and Eastland.
1. Neapolitan Pizza. Neapolitan pizza, also known as Naples-style pizza, is a traditional type of pizza that originated in Naples, Italy. This type of pizza is prepared with simple and fresh ingredients such as raw tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese, fresh basil leaves and olive oil.