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A church where the oven is the altar and everyone takes communion in slices.
means A restaurant that specializes in making and serving pizza.
from Pizzeria is simply 'pizza' plus the Italian suffix '-eria', which marks a place of business or trade (the same pattern that gives Italian 'gelateria' for a gelato shop or 'macelleria' for a butcher's). 'Pizza' itself has murky roots, likely tracing back through Latin to Greek 'pitta' or similar words for flatbread, though the exact path is debated. The word pizzeria spread worldwide alongside Italian emigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, carrying the oven-and-dough tradition of Naples into cities everywhere it landed.
- origin
- naples, 18th century, originally food for the poor
- true neapolitan rule
- margherita must be hand-stretched, never rolled flat
- oven temp
- wood-fired ovens hit 900 degrees fahrenheit
- name drop
- margherita pizza named for an actual queen