Night 5

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**Pizza** (English: /ˈpiːtsə/ *PEET-sə*, Italian: [ˈpittsa], Neapolitan: [ˈpittsə]) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, vegetables, meat, ham, etc.), which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.

The term *pizza* was first recorded in the 10th century 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 dish. In 2017, the art of making Neapolitan pizza was added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage.

Pizza and its variants are among the most popular foods in the world. Pizza is sold at a variety of restaurants, including pizzerias (pizza specialty restaurants), Mediterranean restaurants, via delivery, and as street food. In Italy, pizza served in a restaurant is presented unsliced, and is eaten with the use of a knife and fork. In casual settings, however, it is cut into wedges to be eaten while held in the hand. Pizza is also sold in grocery stores in a variety of forms, including frozen or as kits for self-assembly. They are then cooked using a home oven.

In 2017, the world pizza market was US$128 billion, and in the US it was $44 billion spread over 76,000 pizzerias. Overall, 13% of the U.S. population aged two years and over consumed pizza on any given day.

## Etymology

The oldest recorded usage of the word "pizza" is from a Latin text from the town of Gaeta, then still part of the Byzantine Empire, in 997 AD; the text states that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta *duodecim pizze* ("twelve pizzas") every Christmas Day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday.

Suggested etymologies include:

* Byzantine Greek and Late Latin *pitta* > *pizza,* *cf.* Modern Greek pitta bread and the Apulia and Calabrian (then Byzantine Italy) *pitta,* a round flat bread baked in the oven at high temperature sometimes with toppings. The word *pitta* can in turn be traced to either Ancient Greek πικτή (*pikte*), "fermented pastry", which in Latin became "picta", or Ancient Greek πίσσα (*pissa*, Attic πίττα, *pitta*), "pitch", or πήτεα (*pḗtea*), "bran" (πητίτης *pētítēs*, "bran bread").
* The Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language explains it as coming from dialectal *pinza* "clamp", as in modern Italian *pinze* "pliers, pincers, tongs, forceps". Their origin is from Latin *pinsere* "to pound, stamp".
* The Lombardic word *bizzo* or *pizzo* meaning "mouthful" (related to the English words "bit" and "bite"), which was brought to Italy in the middle of the 6th century AD by the invading Lombards. The shift b>p could be explained by the High German consonant shift, and it has been noted in this connection that in German the word *Imbiss* means "snack".

A small pizza is sometimes called a "pizzetta". A person who makes pizza is known as a "pizzaiolo".