The ”pizza al tralcio” has nothing to do with Neapolitan pizza. The pizza al trancio (pizza by the slices) has Tuscan origins. It is cooked in a wood oven, but inside metal round pans. This kind of pizza is half of an inch high, it has a crunchy crust and a soft dough. Here below…
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What a surprise! The word “PIZZA” was not born in Naples….
The word “pizza” is one of the first Italian words. According to the historian Giuseppe Knuckle the word pizza was used for the first time in Gaeta, a fishing village in southern Lazio in 997 AD. (not in Naples!) According to his study the pizza, at least as etymology, would take its moves from a…