“比薩”是一種由特殊的餅底、乳酪、醬jiang汁zhi和he餡xian料liao做zuo成cheng的de具ju有you意yi大da利li風feng味wei的de食shi品pin，但dan其qi實shi這zhe種zhong食shi品pin已yi經jing超chao越yue語yu言yan與yu文wen化hua的de壁bi障zhang，成cheng為wei全quan球qiu通tong行xing的de名ming飲yin

，受shou到dao各ge國guo消xiao費fei者zhe的de喜xi愛ai。但dan這zhe種zhong美mei食shi究jiu竟jing源yuan於yu何he時shi何he地di，現xian在zai卻que無wu從cong考kao究jiu。也ye許xu下xia文wen的de說shuo法fa能neng給gei大da家jia一yi點dian啟qi示shi。

    Pizza is one of the foods for which we can hardly name a specific origin. Putting stuff on flat bread as a meal goes back as far as ancient Rome. The word "pizza" appeared just before 1000 AD, in the area between Naples and Rome.
The word itself is probably related to pita (bread), so let's start with the crust. In ancient times, all bread was basically flat. In the middle ages, people started to put things on the bread and then eating it, kind of like what we today might call an open face sandwich. It wasn't really a new way of eating--the bread was a sort of placemat, to help keep the table clean during meals. Only the rich could afford plates, so a flat piece of hard barley bread on the table was used instead for people who were too poor to buy plates. Some bread was specially baked for that purpose. After the meal, sometimes the bread was eaten, and sometimes given to the dogs. There are traditional pizza-like dishes in Provence where bread is topped with onion, tomato, anchovies and olives. In the Middle East, lahma bi ajeen is a pizza base with minced onions, meat and flavorings. American pizza, which can now found throughout the world, was invented in America in the 1950s. Italian immigrants brought pizza to the United States in the early 1900s. However, it was the 1950s when pizza caught on outside the Italian-American community, and quickly spread throughout the U.S., and then the world. We will never know the genius that first put together the bread, tomato sauce, and cheese. But that's how pizza came

to be.

crust：麵包皮

Provence：普羅旺斯，法國南部省份

anchovy：產於地中海的鳳尾魚

lahma bi ajeen：阿拉伯比薩餅