Italian tomato pie

For similarly named dishes, including varieties of pizza called "tomato pie", see Tomato pie.

"Pizza strips" redirects here. For pizza sold in strips in Italy, see, see Pizza al taglio.

Italian tomato pie is an Italian-American and Italian-Canadian baked good consisting of a thick, porous, focaccia-like dough covered with tomato sauce.^[1] It may be sprinkled with Romano cheese or oregano. It is not usually served straight from the oven, but allowed to cool and then consumed at room temperature or reheated. Like Sicilian pizza, tomato pie is baked in a large rectangular pan and usually served in square slices, although in Rhode Island it is cut into rectangular strips like pizza al taglio.^[2] Tomato pie descends from and resembles the Italian sfincione, although it is not the same dish. For instance, sfincione may have toppings, is usually served hot, and has a crust more like brioche than focaccia.^[3][4][5]

Italian tomato pie

Type	Pizza
Region or state	Northeastern United States Central Canada
Main ingredients	Focaccia-like dough, tomato sauce
Media: Italian tomato pie

A 1903 article in the New-York Tribune on the food of Italian-Americans described a "pomidore pizza", or tomato pie, made solely with dough, tomatoes, and powdered red pepper.^[6] Tomato pie has been sold by Iannelli's Bakery in Philadelphia since 1910.^[7] In Utica, New York, the family that would later found O'Scugnizzo's Pizzeria in 1914 sold tomato pies from their basement for several years prior, starting in 1910.^[8]

Regional names

United States

• Philadelphia: tomato pie, church pie, gravy pie (as in "Italian gravy", i.e. tomato sauce)^[5][9]

• Rhode Island: bakery pizza,^[10] party pizza, pizza strips, red bread, strip pizza,^[11][12] red strips^[13]
• Utica: tomato pie^[14]

Canada

• Hamilton, Ontario: Roma pizza (after the name of a bakery),^[15] bread pizza, slab pizza^[16][17]
• Montreal: cold pizza, pizza bread, tomato pizza^[18]

Gallery

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  Italian tomato pie for sale in a grocery store near Utica, New York
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  Rhode Island pizza strips

See also

• United States portal
• Canada portal
• Food portal

• List of tomato dishes
• Southern tomato pie
• Trenton tomato pie