focaccia
Sign in to saveFocaccia is a flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread. It is similar to a flatbread called () in Roman cuisine.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Focaccia
- Food.image
- Focaccia with Crumb.jpg
- Food.country
- Italy
- Food.type
- Flatbread
- Food.main_ingredient
- High-gluten flour, oil, yeast
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Regional variants
- Ligurian variants
- {{lang|it|Focaccia genovese}}
- Other Ligurian variants
- Other variants
- {{lang|it|Focaccia al rosmarino}}
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
Focaccia is a flat leavened oven-baked Italian bread. It is similar to a flatbread called () in Roman cuisine.
==Etymology== thumb|A piece of focaccia on a wooden cutting board In ancient Rome, was a flatbread baked on the hearth. The word is derived from the Latin , 'hearth, place for baking'. The basic recipe is thought by some to have originated with the Etruscans, but today it is widely associated with Ligurian cuisine, while outside Liguria the word usually refers to the Genoese variants.