Easy to learn how to make pizza

Author: Bai Jinxia
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Pizza originated from Naples in the southern part of Italy. This world-famous dish comes from a traditional Italian food called "focaccia" bread. The term "foca" evolved from Latin, meaning "something baked over a fire." They mix ingredients like flour, yeast, salt, and olive oil to form a dough, which is then baked directly into a flatbread. Originally, it was a traditional dish from central and southern Italy; after tomatoes were introduced from Central and South America, people began to spread sauce on the flatbread before baking, creating the prototype of pizza. Due to its wide variety of types and diverse flavors, it has become a long-lasting specialty dish in the region. The thick crust pizza was created by Italian immigrants who crossed the ocean to the United States, using the dough to make a looser, thicker crust with more toppings, while thin crust pizza is the mainstream. Interestingly, you can find in Italy that the crust gets thinner as you move north and thicker as you move south—a unique cultural phenomenon!