Pizza is a traditional 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 the year 997 AD, 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 (TSG) dish. In 2017, the art of making Neapolitan pizza was
added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.