around 1945 an italian friend of mine was eating something she called tomato pie. it certainly had tomatoes, but i didn't notice cheese, maybe it melted underneath. home ec had the english muffin ones in 1957 my brother & i tried both the appian way & chef b-a-d. my aunt, around 1960, would get a pound of dough from vecchi's bakery, roll it out, spread on canned tomato sauce, top with kraft grated cheese & bake. that was it--maybe some pepperoni if we were lucky. we thought it was wonderful.

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