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Medium
Published 1998
It’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t eat focaccia. In the last decade this puffy Italian flat bread has jumped from the ethnic fringe to the culinary mainstream. Focaccia is a very ancient bread; its name comes from the Latin word focus, meaning hearth. There is archeological evidence that the first focacce were baked right in or on the embers on hearthstones heated by coals. That set me thinking about cooking the dough directly on the grill. This will make a thinner foc