On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Victor Sack wrote:

> > However, a person can make DELICIOUS pizza quickly and
> > easily -- in a non-snobby way.
>
> Pizza is a very traditional dish, taken very seriously in Italy, and
> making it in a non-traditional way renders it not a pizza. Here is how
> traditional pizza is supposed to be made - it is all but impossible to
> reproduce this at home, lacking a commercial-grade wood-fired oven.
> <http://www.pizzanapoletana.org/images/file/disciplinare_stg_eng.pdf>.
>
> Victor

Well, hell, Victor - that's the whole problem: Semantics!

Nobody here ever claimed to make "Pizza Napoletana STG".

That's a great whitepaper and defense of a particular, jealously guarded
style, but it is not the be-all and end-all definition of "pizza"...

Dave