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<DIV><TT>Heather: "Italians in Italy can't make pizza either."</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Oh, I've heard than myth. Not true. They make heavenly Pizza, beginning
with their breakfast version with cold lettuce and lax and ending with the
standard tomatoes sauce that only *looks* like the Pizza in other
places.</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><TT>Heather: "</TT></TT><TT>Babylonians, Israelites, Egyptians and
other ancient <BR>Middle Eastern cultures were eating flat, un-leaven bread
that had <BR>been cooked in mud ovens. The bread was much like a pita, which
is <BR>still common in Greece and the Middle East today.</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>topped seasoned with olive oil and native spices."</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>I know of several "flat" breads, some which are baked with olive oil
and Za'atar (local spice) and none can even remotely remind me of a Pizza. True,
the same bread is baked with ketchup and hard yellow cheese and is even
nicknamed "Pizza" but only because it looks like the real Italian thing. Not the
other way around.</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Heather: "Question: if a Napoli baker invented the recent incarnation
of this <BR>dish, why on EARTH was I repeatedly asked in Italy IF I WANTED
<BR>CHEESE? Gross. Pizza without cheese?"</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>You should have tries the no-cheese, lettuce & lax one. I'm still
dreaming of it occasionally. :)</TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>yael *not taking the credit for Pizza
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