It Ain’t Pizza
Because it’s a classic flat bread, focaccia is sometimes considered to be a kind of pizza. The key difference is that focaccia is left to rise after being flattened, whereas pizza dough is baked immediately. It’s worth noting that the flat bread of ancient Sicily was called pitu, a variant of the Greek pita. There’s a good chance pitu etymologically evolved into pizza. But as The New York Times’ Eileen Weinberg described it, “focaccia connotes bread with a little topping and pizza connotes topping with a little bread.”
