Foccacia Seller
Pizza most
clearly took the form that we are now familiar with in pre-Renaissance
Naples, a large
city in central Italy. Poor peasants used their limited ingredients
(wheat flour, olive oil, lard, cheese and natural herbs) to make a seasoned
flat bread, garnished with cheese, called focaccia. Here is a
Neapolitan focaccia peddler from the 18th century.