Pizza in Fort Worth

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Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, disc shaped bread usually topped with tomato sauce and mozzerella and then a selection of meats, salamis, seafood, cheeses, vegetables and herbs.

Originally from Neapolitan cuisine, the dish is popular in many different areas of the world.  "Pizzeria, pizza parlor, pizza place, and pizza shop" are phrases used in the United States to describe a restaurant that specializes in selling pizzas.

Ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs, and cheese. The Romans developed a sheet of flour topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, also known as placenta. Modern pizza originated in Italy as the Neapolitan pie with tomato. Cheese was added in 1889. It has been said that King Ferdinand I (1751–1825) disguised himself as a commoner in a poor neighborhood in Naples so he could eat pizza, the same food that the queen had banned from the royal court.

The crust is the bottom base of the pizza and may vary in style; thin in hand-tossed pizza or Roman pizza, or thick in pan pizza or Chicago-style pizza. Crust is traditionally plain, but sometimes seasoned with butter, garlic, herbs, or stuffed with cheese.

Pizza can be baked in various ways in restaurants, such as in an oven with stone bricks above the heat source, an electric deck oven, a conveyor belt oven or, in more expensive restaurants, a wood- or coal-fired brick oven. On deck ovens, the pizza can be slid into the oven on a long paddle called a peel and baked directly on the hot bricks or baked on a screen. Pizza made at home can be baked on a pizza stone in a regular oven to reproduce the effect of a brick oven. Another option is grilled pizza, in which the crust is baked directly on a barbecue grill. Greek pizza, like Chicago-style pizza, is baked in a pan rather than directly on the bricks of the pizza oven.

At Chef Point Cafe, you will find Florentine Pizza on the lunch and dinner menu. Fresh spinach, tomato, mozzarella cheese, and olive oil make this pizza a great deal at $7.99 -11.99.