my favorite food is pizza
Mmm. I love pizza. I am from the NY metro area and am a pizza snob. lol The word pizza was first documented in AD 997. Didn't realize it was that old. 
was it originally from Italy?
History of pizza
The history of pizza begins in antiquity, when various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flat bread known to the Romans as , to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza developed in Naples when tomato was added to the focaccia in the late 18th century.
The word "pizza" was first documented in 997 A.D. in Gaeta and successively in different parts of Central and Southern Italy. Pizza was mainly eaten in Italy and
ingredients and formed today's pizza.
Historical evidence in Europe suggests that pizza was not transmitted to Europe by Marco Polo, but existed in the Mediterranean long before his time. The first recorded use of the word "pizza" dates from 997 AD (in a Latin text from the town of Gaeta in Southern Italy), more than 250 years before Marco Polo was born.
Similar dishes.
Similar dishes in Chinese culture, and in other cultures, exist:
- "Bánh xèo" (Vietnamese)