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In its original form, a pizza (IPA pronunciation: [ˈpiːtsə]) is an oven-baked, flat, usually circular bread covered with tomato sauce and cheese with optional toppings. The cheese is usually mozzarella (the traditional Italian pizza uses buffalo mozzarella or, according to Naples' tradition, fior di latte cheese) or sometimes a mixture of several cheeses such as parmesan, romano and ricotta. Various other toppings may be added, most typically:

The crust is traditionally plain, but may also be seasoned with butter, garlic, or herbs, or stuffed with cheese. In some pizza recipes the tomato sauce is omitted(termed "white pizza"), or replaced with another sauce (usually garlic butter but can be sauces made with spinach or onions). Nyc restaurant. Pizza is normally eaten hot (typically at lunch or dinner), but leftovers are often eaten cold for breakfast or as a snack.

The etymology of the word pizza is disputed. The form pizza first appears in Naples, Italy in the 16th century. Piza or pissa is late Vulgar Latin (9th century) flat bread, and apparently came to mean a flat bread with a cheese topping by the 14th century in some Italian dialects. [1] Pizzo, which means point in Italian, may have been an influence.