Roma Sausage & Deli Utica I didn’t give it much thought until I was older—I guess I just assumed pizza always… existed. I knew it wasn’t indigenous to the Americas, obviously… but I never really stopped to consider when it got here. Like maybe Christopher Columbus left his Nonna Colombo’s family recipe tucked inside a conch shell somewhere in the Bahamas before he sailed the ocean blue. But in reality, pizza’s a lot newer to the States than most people realize—it didn’t reall