Melt Pizzabar

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The birth of Sourdough, and the first Mother Culture! San Francisco ain't got nothin on Egypt...While the Sumerians (fro...
07/09/2023

The birth of Sourdough, and the first Mother Culture! San Francisco ain't got nothin on Egypt...

While the Sumerians (from our previous episode) were known to make bread as long as 10,000yrs ago - we don't really know if they fermented or levened their bread. My guess is some amount of wild fermentation must have taken place, but not so much so as to be included as part of their process.

That changes in Egypt around 6500 yrs ago - where it was almost common to have a starter in each house. It was skimmed from the froth of what passed as beer/ale in early Egypt - and even though they didn't know about yeast and lactobacillus bacti (probably) - they could certainly see their effects, and master them.

Truth be told - the pyramids don't do anything for me. Sure they are big, and that's their main claim to fame. Sure, the grand pyramid of Khufu was the tallest mandmade structure till the Eiffel Tower in 1887; and sure it's latitude matches the speed of light exactly (29.9792458 N) - sure. Yet...

It's not in the same league as Egypt's contribution to bread.... the food abundance that came with grain storage allowed every other skillset and profession to develop. The portability of bread, cured meats and cheese introduced a 'Working Lunch' concept. After all, If the architect of the pyramid was unsure of his next meal, I'm pretty sure they would go the way of Indian bridges... Broken the day it was built! Join us at Melt Pizzabar for a very Egyptian Za'atar pizza...

Bread Trivia:

A staple of every Egyptian table since 6000 yrs (and counting) - the 'Aish Baladi' bread is literally translated as 'bread of life'.

Originally baked with 'Emmer', an ancestor type of wheat rich in fiber, and baked on open flat stones heated from underneath.

One can still sample this ancient bread while strolling the the narrow markets, or Souqs, of Cairo. Or make it at home....

The birth of Sourdough, and the first Mother Culture! San Francisco ain't got nothin on Egypt...While the Sumerians (fro...
07/09/2023

The birth of Sourdough, and the first Mother Culture! San Francisco ain't got nothin on Egypt...

While the Sumerians (from our previous episode) were known to make bread as long as 10,000yrs ago - we don't really know if they fermented or levened their bread. My guess is some amount of wild fermentation must have taken place, but not so much so as to be included as part of their process.

That changes in Egypt around 6500 yrs ago - where it was almost common to have a starter in each house. It was skimmed from the froth of what passed as beer/ale in early Egypt - and even though they didn't know about yeast and lactobacillus bacti (probably) - they could certainly see their effects, and master them.

Here's a link to a bread made with revived 4500yr old Egyptian yeast: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-bread-did-ancient-egyptians-eat

Truth be told - the pyramids don't do anything for me. Sure they are big, and that's their main claim to fame. Sure, the grand pyramid of Khafre was the tallest mandmade structure till the Eiffel Tower in 1887; and sure it's latitude matches the speed of light exactly (29.9792458 N) - sure. Yet...

It's not in the same league as Egypt's contribution to bread.... the food abundance that came with grain storage allowed every other skillset and profession to develop. The portability of bread, cured meats and cheese introduced a 'Working Lunch' concept. After all, If the architect of the pyramid was unsure of his next meal, I'm pretty sure they would go the way of Indian bridges... Broken the day it was built!
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Bread Trivia:

A staple of every Egyptian table since 6000 yrs (and counting) - the 'Aish Baladi' bread is literally translated as 'bread of life'.

Originally baked with 'Emmer', an ancestor type of wheat rich in fiber, and baked on open flat stones heated from underneath.

One can still sample this ancient bread while strolling the the narrow markets, or Souqs, of Cairo. Or make it at home....
Here's an article that delves into the 'Aish Baladi'
https://www.breadfast.com/blog/unpacking-fascinating-facts-about-egypts-baladi-bread/

In the beginning: aliens visited earth, and taught the first men agriculture, language and math. Probably!Atleast by som...
05/09/2023

In the beginning: aliens visited earth, and taught the first men agriculture, language and math.
Probably!

Atleast by some Mesopotamian accounts, these benevolent aliens, called the 'Annunaki' (or 'children of heaven') guided early homo sapiens out of the caves they were forced into after the great floods; 12000 years ago.
You know - Noah's flood (biblical)
but also Erridu's Flood (Babylon)
and Manu's flood (India)
and Gilgamesh's Flood (Akkad)
and Sekhmet's flood (Egypt)
Ahura Mazda'a flood (Zoroastrian)
They were all the same flood!

In geological time, it is called the 'Younger Dryas' -
a 2 million year ice age; which, when it ended 12000 years ago, must have felt like the end of the world to people who mainly lived near water bodies.
The origin story of every modern human, and humanity itself can be traced back to this moment in earth's timeline. The point of departure from our Neanderthal cousins & The dawn of civilization!

What we do know for certai, is that the early Sumerians were already making bread, and had a highly developed system of commerce, fractional math and token accounting.
And if the Sumerians had bread, we can be sure they topped it with something.
Honey, or fat perhaps!

The picture above is of our first oven at Melt Pizzabar
(torn down to make way for more ugly villas).
It was a homage to the birth of bread, civilization- and aliens!
Inspired from a 10,000yr old Sumerian clay tablet housed at the Berlin Museum; it shows 2 men trading grain for cattle and wool. Under a surprisingly accurate star map for date (notice the sun is in the centre), and in view of the 'Annunaki' for higher authority.
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Pizza trivia:

Archaeologists usually look for signs of grain and bread making to determine the start of civilization in each region.
Homo sapiens are almost 300,000 years old - but the first civilizations only emerged 12000 years ago!

What happened?

Bread happened!

Join us on the saga of Pizza, Bread... and Life!
05/09/2023

Join us on the saga of Pizza, Bread... and Life!

Join us on this adventure of Pizza and Bread...
05/09/2023

Join us on this adventure of Pizza and Bread...

Melt is not a restaurant, or a business. There's no owner & no staff. No product for sale or services rendered. In the s...
29/08/2023

Melt is not a restaurant, or a business. There's no owner & no staff. No product for sale or services rendered.

In the same way that Bavarian monks who brew beer don't run a pub; or Franciscan monks who make wine don't call their Abbey a wine bar.
Thusly, Melt is a temple of Pizza.

Borne of honest intentions and the devoted diligence of otherwise misfits and outcastes; of socially challenged and awkward individuals who found their zen through pizza.

There is no recipe at work here; only prayer and pillars of belief. A prayer each day that 3 days hence the dough will rise and become more than the sum its parts; just like a child is more than the sum of its parents.

Guided by the belief that honest food is meant to nourish & energise you; not drain you of energy to digest itself.
(Basically no food coma)

That honest food should make one salivate, regardless of taste.
Try it for yourself. Even a bit of the dry crust from a Melt pizza should leave you salivating.

And most importantly, that recipes and processes don't make food: People do.
How happy (or not) & how relaxed (or not) the person cooking is can easily be felt in the food. That's why there are no staff at Melt - only deciples worshiping at the alter of pizza.

We welcome all pilgrims in this quest for the c
rust of life. Bon appetito!

Pizza trivia:
Q: Do you know why rising dough is said to be proofing?
A: Anything that grows of its own volition, must be alive, so it is the 'PROOF of life' that bakers wait for.

We are not the best pizza.Yes, that's true!Largely because there is no such thing. The 'Best' is not a permanent state; ...
29/08/2023

We are not the best pizza.
Yes, that's true!
Largely because there is no such thing.
The 'Best' is not a permanent state; it is a fleeting moment where the universe aligns ever so, and we were lucky to just be in its path.

The 'Best' is not a fixed point; but rather a moving horizon: always a little further from our reach, always beckoning, yet not to to be found.

It is the pot of gold under a rainbow.
We at Melt are happy looking at the rainbow, and not chasing pots of gold.
For all we want, is to be 'Better'
Better than we were yesterday..
and the day before.
The 'Best' is finite
'Better' is infinite
For by whose measure can we define the 'Best'?
But I can define my own 'Better'

I can see past my own public facade and into my weaknesses. I can befriend them. Work through them, or atleast work with them.
Looking for the 'Best' is like chasing lightning. While one can narrow their search to within a storm, nobody can predict when and where lightning will strike.

Me and my team at Melt are not the best.
We are simply chasing lightning in quiet corners of the storm. ..................
Pizza trivia:

The dough used for tossing at the world pizza competitions, in both Las Vegas and Italy, has soo much salt that it would not be suitable for consumption. (Sometimes in the range of 10-15%)
Salt increases the elasticity and strengthens the gluten allowing for all those backhand flips, but doesn't make for tasty pizza; Infact, tossing has nothing to do with actual pizza. So don't be disheartened if ur local pizzeria isn't tossing theirs 10ft above. I would very much doubt eating at a place that does
Join us won't you!

What is pizza? Simply put, Pizza is bread with toppings! And something so rudimentary cannot belong to one place, one n...
29/08/2023

What is pizza?

Simply put, Pizza is bread with toppings!
And something so rudimentary cannot belong to one place, one nation, one people or one time.
What is certain though is -
Pizza is not Italian!

How can it be: Italy was formed in 1861 whereas the first written account of pizza dates back to the year 29 B.C by the Greek poet Virgil, in his epic saga titled
'The Aenid'.

"And once they’d devoured all in sight,
still not sated, their hunger drove them on to attack the fateful plates themselves,
their hands and teeth defiling,
ripping into the thin dry crusts,
never sparing a crumb
of the flat-bread scored in quarters.”

–The Aeneid, Book VII

Not only is he describing a pizza,
they even had slices!
There are numerous such accounts spanning every civilization that has risen (and fallen) through the ages. Over the next few posts, we will trace that origin story as far back as we can.
All the way back to ancient Sumeria in Mesopotamia, to Babylon, to Egypt, to Persia, Greece, Rome, the Ottomans, the long journey to the new world - over 2 world wars, untill finally, globalisation brought it to every corner of the globe. Including our little corner in goa!

Join us in this tale of pizza, of bread and of mankind itself!...........................
Pizza Trivia:
Margherita who?

Named for the queen of Italy when it was first formed, Queen Margherita, wife of King Umberto 2: famously loved the combination of tomato, basil and mozzarella so much that she gave it her royal seal of approval...and it has since been called by her name. Those colours also happen to be in the Italian flag which was introduced around then.
Yet somehow, the chef and pizza artist that came up with it, and first executed the pizza napolitana in the summer palace of Naples seems to be condemned to obscurity.

Not at Melt.
We honour DON RAFFAELE ESPOSITO -
for one cannot seperate the artist from the art. Just like the dome of the Sistine chapel is credited to Michelangelo, and not the Vatican. On our menu we give credit where credit is due

So come and try our
MARGHERITA DON RAFFAELE

Cause a small step today can make a big difference tomorrow!✨🌱
06/06/2023

Cause a small step today can make a big difference tomorrow!✨🌱

Experience pizza perfection with our hand-tossed Pepperoni Pizza at It's the epitome of deliciousness! 😋🍕 For Table R...
02/06/2023

Experience pizza perfection with our hand-tossed Pepperoni Pizza at It's the epitome of deliciousness! 😋🍕


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29/05/2023

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For Table Reservations Call:
+919665033102

Now Open From:
12:00PM to 11:00PM

📍 Vagator, Goa

Kick back, relax, and enjoy the taste of summer with our refreshing cocktails at the Melt Pizza Bar😋🍕Join us for your we...
26/05/2023

Kick back, relax, and enjoy the taste of summer with our refreshing cocktails at the Melt Pizza Bar😋🍕

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For Table Reservations Call:
+919665033102

Now Open From:
12:00PM to 11:00PM

📍 Vagator, Goa

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HQV2+5VJ, Mapusa/Anjuna/Chapora Road, Vagator
Anjuna
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Friday 12pm - 11pm
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