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
Food desert geographic areas of the US. Proximity to fast food or a supermarket/grocery store was used to predict the type of food consumed. In low-income study participants, the type of food consumed was directly related to the proximity of fast food restaurants. These results suggest that low-income persons living in a food desert make decisions to consume fast food based on proximity to fast food restaurants versus distances to a grocery store. While access poses a major barrier to the practice of self-care in food deserts, health literacy remains a common barrier to nutritional behavioral choices. Health literacy and food deserts