Russian-Style Pizza

This hearty pizza is the antithesis of the minimalist designer pizzas so popular in the United States today. It’s the brainchild of my exuberant friend Tatyana Bogomazova, a St. Petersburg ethnographer. Tanya starting making pizza in the early 1990s, when kitchen appliances finally made their way into Russia and she became the proud owner of a bread machine. As Tanya explains it, she found the bread machine incongruous for Russia, where it’s easy enough to buy excellent bread. So she starte