Pizza[a] is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat -based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. The term pizza was first recorded in AD 997, in a Latin manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gaeta, in Lazio, on the border with Campania. [2] Raffaele Esposito is often ...
