Pizza, Pizza????

Long ago, pizza was a totally different creature than it is today. In Italia it still is respected & protected by law to maintain the historic quality that has been mostly lost in the USA. While I enjoy a lot of the mdern variations, I often long for the good old fashioned thin crust that is baked in a real pizza oven. In those days a lot of pizza makers shaped the crust by tossing it. They developed that tossing into an art form. & while they don't seem to be using the old fashioned dough that made the crust I remember, the art form is being preserved.

In fact there are pizza dough tossing teams out there that participate in competitions all over the world. There is even an US Pizza Team. I wonder what Raffaele Esposito (considered the father of the modern pizza) would say if he could see what his Pizza Margherita has evolved into?