Focaccia "potato pizza" in New York City. Pizza is also a similar dish. Focaccia Focaccia () is a flat oven-baked Italian bread product similar in style and texture to pizza doughs. Focaccia can be used as a side to many meals or as sandwich bread. "Focaccia al rosmarino" (focaccia with rosemary) is a common focaccia style in Italian cuisine that may be served as an antipasto, appetizer, table bread, or snack. Focaccia is similar to the Greek flatbread Lagana. In Ancient Rome, "panis focacius" was a flat bread baked on the hearth. The word is derived from the Latin "focus" meaning
What Is Literature? What Is Literature? What Is Literature? (), also published as "Literature and Existentialism",) is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948. Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals "Les Temps modernes", "Situations I" and "Situations II", essays "What is Writing?" and "Why Write?" were translated into English and published by the Paris-based literary journal Transition 1948. The English translation by Bernard Frechtman was published in 1950. Sartre attempts to devise an understanding of the effect literature has on those who are subjected to it. In the foreword Sartre addresses his critics