Italian Pizza

On saturday we had a community dinner at our Collegium. There were about 20 of us, mostly from my collegium and friends from elsewhere that were friends of ours. Sandro who lives in my Collegium is from Sicily and made us some authentic Italian pizzas. There were several types. First a plain margarita pizza (sauce, and sliced mozzarella), there was also others like it but with sliced salami  or sliced ham on top. We also had two "New York" style pizzas, they were the basic margarita with french fries, sliced mini hot dogs and ham on top. We had two  which I would call "authentic" flavor pizzas. These were a margarita with, peas, mushrooms, black olives, hard boiled egg, and ham on top. It is quite a combination, but it was surprisingly well balanced and tasted quite good. For dessert one of the french girls made an apple, pear pie with an open top covered with some poppy seeds. That was really really good, and it was complimented by a kiwi quiche. I know the later sounds odd but it was more like a custard than a quiche and it was also baked like an open faced pie. Also we had a plain chocolate cake. All in all it was a very successful dinner and we are planing to have a french dinner next weekend... Out of all of us there were about a dozen from France... It was also interesting because Marco the other Italian from our collegium (From Modena) said that the "authentic" pizza is nothing like what he would get back at home, just so show that pizza from northern to southern Italy is very different. Eventually we will also have an Austrian meal and perhaps even an American one. I am not sure what I am going to do yet, but everyone wants me to do hamburgers, so maybe I will do that or some other food on the grill when the weather is nice out. If you have any suggestions feel free, I would like  to represent the US well...