Pizza marinara, also known as pizza alla marinara, is a style of

pizza Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions ...

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seasoned with only

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and

garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Allium fistulosum, Welsh onion and Allium chinense, Chinese onion. It is native to South A ...

. It is supposedly the oldest tomato-topped pizza.

History

It has been claimed the pizza marinara was introduced around the year 1735 (in 1734 according to

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regulation 97/2010), and was prepared using olive oil,

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, basil, oregano, and garlic at that time, and that historically it was known to be ordered commonly by poor sailors, and made on their ships due to it being made from easily preservable ingredients. The historical account of the pizza marinara's creation and its association with sailors rests predominantly on oral and traditional retellings rather than documented, empirical evidence. Francesco de Bourcard, writing in his 1866 book ''Usi e costumi di Napoli'' (Customs and Traditions of Naples), Vol. II (page 124), seemed to know the recipe with a different name, and to consider the addition of tomatoes an extra for both Marinara and Margherita:

Recipe

According to the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana: In pizzerias in the area of Rome, the recipe is commonly modified with the addition of salted

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