Sounds like a dealbreaker
Sounds like a dealbreaker
Yes. Cheese can be overpowering for more subtle toppings, it’s also fairly high in salt. You don’t really notice the salt, unless you mix it with other topping that are also salty.
BBQ sauce with jalapeno and nutritional yeast is pretty good. The nutritional yeast give that cheese-like funk without the salt combining with the jalapeno, or counteracting the sweet of the bbq sauce.
Also, the cheese also ruins some flavours like kimchi, bruschetta, or chimichurri.
A little spice, a little tang, a little vinegar, and a decent amount of garlic.
If the sauce is a little on the sweet side, you have your major flavour profiles to balance against the starch of the bread. And any tomato sauce gives it a little bit of a holopchi vibe.
It’s nearly perfection.
I share the opinion that pizza is bread with sauce and cheese.
However, I am open to change my mind because there is always room for more pizza in my life. What’s everyone’s favorite non-cheese pizzas?
If your pizza is same as bread
Pizza is a type of flatbread! Look it up in your encyclopaedia of choice.
In Italy cheese is absolutely not required, even if Margherita is the most common base so most pizzas have cheese. Even so, there are many types of pizza with no cheese, and many others with no tomato.
It’s also very common to see pizza farcita, which you can imagine as a pizza sandwich. For example a very common one is “pizza e mortazza” in Rome, which is a pure puzza with no topping but filled with mortadella (a type of ham). But various kinds of fillings are possible
Another example would be focaccia, most of them don’t have any cheese at all.
There is even sweet pizza with no cheese, for example pizza with Nutella
The base is not bread. Even your definition doesn’t call it bread. It’s pizza. And a random American dictionary is hardly a source.
Also, pizza is older than tomato in Europe…
Here’s an Italian dictionary, if talking with an Italian wasn’t enough