focaccia

Focaccia is a flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread. In some contemporary places, such as Rome, it is a style of pizza, also called ("white pizza"). Focaccia may be served as a side dish or as sandwich bread and it may be round, rectangular, or square shape. Etymology and terminology In Ancient Rome, was a flat bread baked on the hearth. The word is derived from the Latin 'hearth, place for baking'. The basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans, but today it is widely associated with Ligurian cuisine, while outside Liguria the word usually refers to the Genoese variants. The first attestation of the word dates back to the 14th century.