More than 1,000 years before pizza’s inception, people in the Levant region were eating manoushe, a flatbread topped with with za’atar and zayt (olive oil). Chefs from Z&Z Manoushe Bakery in Rockville, Maryland, demonstrate their family’s manoushe in this outdoor cooking demonstration.

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