Focaccia

Focaccia is a type of Italian yeast bread baked in flat sheet pans. Focaccia dough is flavoured with olive oil and sometimes topped with herbs and other vegetables. Many historians believe that focaccia was born with either the Etruscans of North Central Italy in the days before the Roman Empire, or long before that in Ancient Greece at the beginning of the first millennium.

Similar to focaccia the French have fougasse. Fougasse is typically associated with Provence but found in other regions of France also. Some versions are sculpted or slashed into a pattern resembling an ear of wheat.