A tavola non si invecchia. (At the table one does not age.) – Italian proverb. How can you not love focaccia? While the dough makeup is similar to that of pizza – flour, water, sugar, yeast, oil and salt – it’s the baking process that makes focaccia unique. The basic recipe is considered to have originated either with the Etruscans, or in Ancient Greece, and its name is derived from the Latin “panis focacius”, with panis meaning bread, and focus meaning hearth or fireplace. As focaccia was cooked in the ashes of the fire, you could read this as ‘bread baked on the floor of the oven.’