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[quote=GUEST71110,371938]Taken from my Professional Baking , 5th Edition: "By the time of the ancient Greeks, about five or six hundred years BCE, true enclosed ovens were in use.These ovens were preheated by building a fire inside them.They had a door in the front that could be closed, so the oven could be loaded and unloaded without losing much heat. The breads baked in these ovens were still, for the most part, simply cakes of baked grain pastes mixed with a little of the paste from the day before to supply wild yeasts for leavening. Such flat or slightly mounded breads were called maza. Maza, especially maza made of barley, were the staple food of the time. In fact, in ancient Greece, all foods were divided into two categories, maza and opson, meaning things eaten with maza. Opson included vegetables, cheese, fish, meat, or anything else except bread. Often the opson was placed on top of the flat bread, forming the ancestors of modern pizzas." [/quote]
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