Why have I called this Italian Pizza? To differentiate it from other rubbish!

One of the biggest problems of cooking your own pizza is the lack of a pizza oven. Not one of those metal conveyer belt things that delivery services use for their revolting offerings, but the blast furnace things you find in Italy; often wood fired (though sometimes electric) and running at very high temperatures - twice what the average domestic cooker can achieve!

Pizza is the ultimate fast food. Contrary to what has been said in the press, proper pizza is a healthy meal that combines two of Italy's primary ingredients - tomato and good bread.

Unfortunately, a company called Pizza Hut would like the world to think that their fatty, salt-ridden, processed, transfat drenched piece of inedible cardboard is the real thing. It is not. Not even close. Even the far more respectable Pizza Express really is not doing Pizza the full justice it deserves.