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Best Fugazza in Chicago
“Thick crust, caramelized onions, sometimes olives—Argentine pizza stripped to its essence.”
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Fugazza (from Genoese fugassa) is a common type of Argentine pizza, originating in Buenos Aires, that consists of a thick pizza crust topped with onions and sometimes olives. A similar variant known as fugazza con queso or americana includes mozzarella cheese along with the aforementioned ingredients. It is derived from a combination of Neapolitan pizza with Italian focaccia bread, which in the Genoese Accent is known as Fugassa. The pizza originates from another style called pizza al molde.
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Fugazza arrives as a thick-crusted Argentine pizza born from Buenos Aires kitchens, where Neapolitan technique met Genoese focaccia tradition. Onions blanket the dough in a generous scatter, sometimes joined by olives—a straightforward composition that doesn't need much. The variant fugazza con queso layers in mozzarella, though the onion-forward version remains the archetypal form, descended from pizza al molde's baking method.
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- derived from established Italian traditions
- simple, focused topping strategy
- two recognizable variants
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