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noun

a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.

Also called pizza pie.

Origin:
1930–35; < Italian pizza (variant pitta), perhaps ultimately < Greek; Cf. pḗtea bran, pētítēs bran bread

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Making pizza is a lesson in the beauty of being prepared.

So far no athletes have drawn suspensions, and only a handful have been docked pizza money.

So far only two obscurities have declared themselves, a pizza mogul and a gay-rights activist.

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Making pizza is a lesson in the beauty of being prepared.

So far no athletes have drawn suspensions, and only a handful have been docked pizza money.

So far only two obscurities have declared themselves, a pizza mogul and a gay-rights activist.

Ask students where restaurants that serve pizza are located in your community and why they are located where they are.

It's a great tale of you blowing out the door of your oven in the name, of course, of research for your book and making pizza.

The rooms always smelled of stale pizza and popcorn from other students' half-hearted cooking endeavors.

Excellent pizza and salads, amid the gourmet food and wine stalls.

But grilling produces a killer rustic pizza with a crispy, flavorful crust.

The pizza was far better than a typical old-school mushroom pizza.

On the other hand, you can get awesome pizza and even a good bagel.

Pizza crust, napkins and plastic cups are scattered across the carpet.

One pizza parlor now serves triangular pies on triangular platters.

In the visual illusion slide show the side-by-side pizza tower and railway pictures are the exact same.

Beware of cheap eateries that sport big color photos of pizza and piles of different pastas.

Delicious toppings turn pizza and burgers into the perfect wine food.

When touched by a ghost, our pizza pie shaped hero rolls onto his back, dislocates his giant jaw and dissolves into nothingness.

But a trip to this neighborhood pizza place isn't about fusion food or.

And it's easy to find traditional pub fare or remarkably imaginative pizza by the slice.

Not so long ago the hopeful diner would have been lucky to find a pizza house.

Its a film that is great to pop some popcorn, order a pizza and watch with the entire family or loved ones.

It's not such a big deal if you're tracking how much you spend on pizza.

Put oregano in the pizza sauce, never in the marinara.

Their leaves flavor everything from meats, soups, and stews to pizza and spaghetti.

There's no way we'd make that trek unless you throw in some ice cream and pizza.

Fennel and spring onions, cooked gently until they begin to caramelize, make a sweet topping for a pizza.

With luck visitor too disoriented to notice parking ticket on my car in front of pizza joint.

His favorite color is blue, and his favorite food is pizza.

Now if you could get it more bacon flavored and cooked onto your pizza so you don't have to smoke it at.

Pizza is remembered from high school because my sister, two years older than me, could count on me to give her half of mine.

To save space, the pizza oven is stacked over the fireplace.

They hope to grow a form of minced meat suitable for burgers, sausages and pizza toppings within the next few years.

The nation's largest pizza chains are being hammered by sluggish sales and runaway ingredient costs.

Dudley put in a standing order for pizza delivery every night.

Take the same technology home with you when you create your own solar oven out of little more than a pizza box.

Standard pizza with refined grains and loads of cheese: out.

We might be able to eat our yogurt containers or frozen pizza wrappers someday, according to this article.

He continues to live on pizza and is a demanding boss, often fighting with colleagues.

Their professional pizza ovens, especially the models that burn wood or.

All things equal, the pizza magnate had a pretty good evening.

Treat yourselves to a candlelit pizza party, a bike ride or a family art night.

Some of these designs aren't too far off from what's still used today to get a deliciously crisp pizza crust.

Fennel and spring onions combine to make a wonderful pizza topping.

But that doesn't automatically make a pizza party pedagogically useful.

They also offer unusual gum flavors,such as hamburger and pizza.

She says the pizza sauce on the cheese pizza falls off.

Olives, and little else, make a great pizza topping.

Another colleague has pizza parties and tells his students jokes half the time while showing them movies the other half.

It can turn flour, water, tomato sauce and fresh ingredients into hot pizza in a.

Pizza is another engagement trick to get students to possibly pay attention to their education and learn.

Familiarize yourself with professional standards, do your best, then go bowling or order pizza.

The answer is not that the taxi drivers or pizza restaurants do not desire dollars coming from black hands.

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pizza (ˈpiːtsə)

—n
	a dish of Italian origin consisting of a baked disc of dough covered with cheese and tomatoes, usually with the addition of mushrooms, anchovies, sausage, or ham

[C20: from Italian, perhaps from Vulgar Latin picea (unattested), from Latin piceus relating to pitch²; perhaps related to Modern Greek pitta cake]

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Word Origin & History

pizza

1935, from It. pizza, originally "cake, tart, pie," of uncertain origin. Klein suggests a connection with M.Gk. pitta "cake, pie," from Gk. pitta "pitch." See also pita. Pizzeria is attested from 1943, likely in use in Amer.Eng. from 1930s.

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