History
The word "pizza" is first documented over 1000 years ago in the Central and Southern parts of this European country.
What is Italy?
This substance covers over 70% of the Earth's surface.
What is water?
Cooking pizza at home, at around 400 - 450 degrees, can be enhanced by placing the pizza on this hard surface.
What is a pizza stone?
What is becoming the next king?
This style of pizza is a deep-dish, multi-layered pizza, almost a casserole, and is named for the windy US city in which it originated.
What is Chicago style pizza?
The addition of this ingredient led to modern flatbread pizza. This ingredient is native to the Americas, not Europe, and used to be believed to be poisonous, because some other fruits in the nightshade family are poisonous.
What are tomatoes?
This common grain has different varieties known by names such as einkorn, emmer, spelt, kamut, and durum.
What is wheat?
The type of oven is fueled by burning wood or coal at around 750 degrees and is generally considered the best for making pizza.
What is a brick oven?
In Matthew 13, for what reason does Jesus say God waits to separate weeds from the wheat until harvest time (or 2nd coming).
What is telling Righteous apart from the Wicked?
This style of pizza is generally thinner and crispier and is named for the capital of Italy.
What is Roman pizza?
Instead of the savory dish that we are familiar with today, older pizza recipes often had this taste (think taste buds on the tip of the toungue).
What is sweet?
This single-celled fungus releases carbon dioxide through fermentation.
What is yeast?
This type of pizza oven is portable and is often fueled by charcoal or propane.
What is a grill oven?
Moses tells the Children of Israel to only eat this kind of bread during Passover.
What is unleavened bread (or bread without yeast)?
This style of pizza from Naples, Italy is the classic pizza style with a chewy crust and high edges. New York pizza is a variation of this style.
What is Neapolitan pizza?
This flatbread that we still eat today is a precursor to pizza and was known to the Romans as Panis Focacius
What is focaccia bread?
In addition to adding flavor, this ingredient lubricates the dough, making it more elastic and less prone to tearing when you roll or stretch it to form the pizza base.
What is oil?
Jesus tells the woman at the well that He can give her a better, or living, version of this substance.
What is water?
This style of pizza is made with fresh tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil, and olive oil, representing the colors of the Italian flag and named after Queen Margherita of Savoy
What is Pizza Margherita?
This process caused by substances in the dough reacting with a foaming action, leaving behind holes in the dough caused by gas bubbles.
What is leavening?
This ingredient, which enhances flavor, structure, and browning in pizza, is also used to preserve food such as meat.
What is salt?
This dough ingredient provides fuel for the fermentation process and is sweet to the taste.
What is sugar?
People who are honest, hardworking, and reliable can be referred to as this of the earth.
What is salt?