pizza bianca
{{Short description|Roman flatbread}}
{{Distinguish|White pizza}}
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{{lang|it|Pizza bianca}} is a type of flatbread originating in Rome, Italy. It is a plain yeast flatbread which more closely resembles focaccia than typical cheese-topped pizza.{{Cite web |last=Swiers |first=Autumn |date=2023-02-07 |title=What Makes Rome's Pizza Bianca Unique? |url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1191813/what-makes-romes-pizza-bianca-unique/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Tasting Table |language=en-US}} It can be split and filled with ingredients such as prosciutto, Parmesan cheese or rocket{{cite news |last1=Roddy |first1=Rachel |title=Rachel Roddy's recipe for a Roman pizza bianca |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/06/rachel-roddy-a-kitchen-in-rome-pizza-bianca |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=6 December 2016}} and is typically served hot. In 2019 the government of Italy declared {{lang|it|Pizza Bianca Romana alla Pala del Fornaio}} a traditional agri-food product of Italy.{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-04-02 |title=La Pizza Bianca Romana alla Pala del Fornaio entra nell'elenco dei PAT 2019 |url=https://www.confesercenti.it/blog/la-pizza-bianca-romana-alla-pala-del-fornaio-entra-nellelenco-dei-pat-2019/ |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Confesercenti Nazionale |language=it-IT}}
Historical accounts
{{Main Article|History of pizza}}
The mention of a {{lang|it|pizza bianca mastunicola}} in 1666 in Italy was reported in a PDO file for the {{lang|it|Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana}} as a dough base coated with lard complemented with cheese and basil. The {{lang|it|pizza bianca}} is mentioned again multiple times during the 19th century, along with the {{lang|it|pizza rossa}}, by contemporaries from Italy and France. In 1903, Italian workers ate {{lang|it|pizza bianca}} in the Old Port of Marseille.{{Cite news|url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/as/2008-v32-n3-as2914/029724ar/#re1no8%7Ctitle=Food|title=Frontières alimentaires et mets transfrontaliers La pizza, questionnement d'un paradoxe|trans-title=Food Frontiers and Cross-Border Foods Pizza, Study of a Paradox|language=fr|last=Sanchez |first=Sylvie|access-date=23 August 2024|doi=10.7202/029724ar|doi-access=free|volume=32|issue=3|date=20 April 2009|orig-date=2008|pages=197–212|institution=Université Laval|work=Anthropologie et Sociétés}}
See also
{{Portal|Italy|Food}}