Pizza]) Originating as a part of Italian cuisine. The bread base of the pizza (called the “crust) may vary widely according to style: thin as in hand-tossed pizza or Roman pizza, thick as in pan pizza It is traditionally plain, but may also be seasoned with butter, garlic, or herbs, or stuffed with cheese. Pizza can be baked in a gas oven with stone bricks above the heat source, an electric deck oven, a conveyor belt oven or, in the case of 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 (a round metal grate, typically aluminum.