The pineapple pizza in Australia

22 July 2026

Love it or hate it pineapple continues to be a topping for pizza. This article tracks the road to it over 110 years of pizza in Australia from the first descriptions of pizza, through recipes for it, and its commercial production.

Caveat: This article only concerns English language sources. There were recipes in Italian newspapers in Australia also.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My articles cover a range of topics pertinent to the multicuisinal Australian table from foods of the First Nations, through settler colonial food, the influences of migrants to the present day.