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I forget if I mentioned this before, but I got really interested in making pizza when I was maybe 19yo. I got a 'history book' about pizza, which introduced me to the idea that it actually had much humbler beginnings, as a flatbread (like focaccia, much later) with a whole gamut of toppings, like herbs, oils, and even fruit. Also, just the fact that you can make it an impressive number of ways, some of which barely resemble what we typically see in the States.
Indeed, last time I did a deep dive, it seemed that meals like 'proto-pizza' and sandwiches are surprisingly ancient in terms of known history. They would likely go back to shortly after the invention of bread (but not liquid bread, i.e. beer), which seems to predate even the Agricultural Evolution, ~12Kyrs ago. So, somewhere from 14.5Kyrs ago to us much as ~30Kyrs, or even older(!) [WP link]
Anyway, whenever I see pizza posts like this, it gives me an immediate warm feeling, and a hearkening back to my youth, when I had a load of fun experimenting with all this stuff, but never came close to perfecting any of it, which still bothers me today, decades later. :S
I forget, do you still have plans to build a pizza oven or get a pizza steel?
This one was an experiment. I normally pre cook the crust but for this one it was toppings on raw dough. It cooked but it was definitely not ideal. I'm usually experimenting with every batch.