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PIZZA STORY
Pizza is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened
wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types
of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, vegetables, meat, ham, etc.), which is then baked at a
high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
The term pizza was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern
Italian town
of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania. Raffaele Esposito is often credited for creating modern
pizza in Naples. In 2009, Neapolitan pizza was registered with the European Union as a Traditional
Speciality Guaranteed dish. In 2017, the art of making Neapolitan pizza was added to UNESCO's list of
intangible cultural heritage.