Italian tomato pie

Italian tomato pie is an Italian-American and Italian-Canadian baked good consisting of a thick, porous, focaccia-like dough covered with tomato sauce.[1] It may be sprinkled with romano cheese or oregano. It is not usually served straight from the oven, but allowed to cool and then consumed at room temperature or reheated. Like Sicilian pizza, tomato pie is baked in a large rectangular pan and usually served in square slices, although in Rhode Island it is cut into rectangular strips like pizza al taglio.[2] Tomato pie descends from and resembles the Italian sfincione, although it is not the same dish; for instance, sfincione may have toppings, is usually served hot, and has a crust more like brioche than focaccia.[3][4][5]

Italian Tomato pie
TypePizza
Region or stateNortheastern United States, Central Canada
Main ingredientsFocaccia-like dough, tomato sauce
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For similarly named dishes, including varieties of pizza called "tomato pie", see Tomato pie.
"Pizza strips" redirects here. For pizza sold in strips in Italy, see, see Pizza al taglio.

Tomato pie has been sold by Iannelli's Bakery in Philadelphia since 1910.[6] In Utica, New York, the family that would later found O'Scugnizzo's Pizzeria in 1914 sold tomato pies from their basement for several years prior, starting in 1910.[7]

Regional names
  • Typical palermitan sfincione
    Typical palermitan sfincione
  • Tomato pie for sale in a grocery store near Utica
    Tomato pie for sale in a grocery store near Utica
  • O'Scugnizzo's Pizzeria in Utica
    O'Scugnizzo's Pizzeria in Utica
  • Rhode Island pizza strips
    Rhode Island pizza strips

See also

References
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